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| Thursday, May 15, 2008
Supreme Court clears deck for admission without CET
Plea against High Court ruling to be heard in July
- Counsel for petitioner plead for a scheme
till main matter is heard
- “State is adopting the same strategy
of not filing the counter”
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the decks
for the Tamil Nadu government to go ahead with admission of
students to professional courses for academic year 2008-2009
without a Common Entrance Test (CET).
Without passing any interim order on a petition challenging
a Madras High Court judgment, upholding the abolition of the
CET, A Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.V.
Raveendran and Justice M.K. Sharma asked the State government
to file its response. It posted the matter for hearing of the
main petition in the last week of July.
Senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan and Counsel P.R. Kovilan, appearing
for petitioner Minor P. Mugila Devi, pleaded for a scheme till
the main matter was heard. Mr. Dhavan said even in 2007, the
State adopted the same strategy of not filing the counter. This
year, too, it was doing the same. Neutralisation of marks (of
different boards) was not the correct method when there were
a number of students with the same percentage of marks.
Senior counsel T.R. Andhyarujina and Abhishek Singhvi, assisted
by Additional Advocate General N. Kannadasan, submitted that
the law was approved by the Medical and Dental Councils of India
and the All-India Council for Technical Education. Results of
higher secondary examinations had been published, and issue
of applications for professional courses had commenced. “Practically
this year it is not possible to hold CET,” Mr. Andhyarujina
said.
Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions
Act, 2006 envisages admission to all professional courses during
2007-08 on the basis of the marks obtained by students in the
higher secondary examinations.
On April 27, 2007, the High Court dismissed a batch of petitions
challenging this law. The present special leave petition is
directed against this judgment.
The special leave petition said the Supreme Court had decided
that to determine uniform standards in education, and admission
through CET was the best method, which had been approved by
the Medical Council of India and the AICTE.
It sought quashing of the judgment and interim stay of its operation.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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