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| Thursday, Apr 12, 2007
Orders reserved on CET abolition
Normalisation will take care of different streams of examinations:
V.T. Gopalan
Chennai: A Division Bench of the Madras High Court, hearing
a batch of petitions against the abolition of common entrance
test (CET) for admissions to professional courses this year,
reserved its orders on Wednesday.
The Bench comprising Justices Prafulla Kumar Misra and J.A.K.
Sampathkumar reserved the orders, after Additional Solicitor-General
of India V.T. Gopalan submitted that normalisation of marks
would take care of different streams of examinations in Tamil
Nadu, and that the objective did not run counter to any Central
legislation. Though the CET had been abolished, its objectives
still remained, and the effect of the abolition was set off
by the normalisation system.
Narrating the principles governing the process of Presidential
assent, Mr. Gopalan said it was not an idle or empty formality.
He said various departments and Ministries concerned with the
issue were asked to assess the legislation before it was forwarded
to the President for assent.
A State Government was not "denuded" of its power
to make an enactment merely because there was a Central legislation
in operation, he said. There was no impingement of any Central
statute or dilution of the prescribed standards.
The Additional Solicitor-General said the earlier Division Bench
orders were not applicable now, in view of the changed scenario,
and said if need be the present Bench could refer the case to
a Full Bench.
Earlier, Ravi Varma Kumar, senior counsel for the Pattali Makkal
Katchi, said this year, students had been informed all along
that there would be no CET. To go back on the assurance at this
stage, and asking them to write a CET would be unfair, he said,
adding that the normalisation scheme should get a chance to
prove itself. The Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational
Institutions Act 2006 was brought forth under compelling situations,
as was evident from the fact that successive Governments tried
to do away with the CET, he contended.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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