Plea challenges exclusion of government-aided school students from 7.5% medical admission quota
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The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State authorities to reply to a plea difficult the exclusion of authorities aided non-public school students from the profit of 7.5% horizontal reservation accorded to authorities school students in medical admissions.
Justices R. Subbiah and C. Saravanan granted time until January 5 for the federal government to file its counter affidavit to the general public curiosity litigation petition filed by Tamil Nadu Catholic Educational Association, an umbrella organisation that runs 2,286 authorities aided faculties.
Appearing on behalf of the affiliation, Senior Counsel Rev. Fr. Xavier Arulraj argued that the extension of the profit of reservation solely to authorities school students and to not these learning in authorities aided establishments was ex-facie improper and arbitrary.
He instructed the courtroom that each one 2,286 authorities aided faculties below the petitioner affiliation had been Tamil medium establishments and most of them pre-date Independence. Apart from these establishments, quite a few unaided faculties and faculties had been additionally run below the affiliation.
This 12 months, the State legislature had enacted the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on Preferential foundation to Students of Government Schools Act of 2020 to present 7.5% horizontal reservations.
The Act outlined ‘government schools’ to imply these run straight by the federal government, company faculties, municipal faculties, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare faculties, Kallar Reclamation faculties, Forest Department faculties and different faculties managed by authorities departments.
Mr. Arulraj contended that the Act was discriminatory because it had fully ignored Tamil medium authorities aided non-public school students who had been on a par, each socially and educationally, with these learning in authorities and company faculties.
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