HC comes to rescue of medical aspirant
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court took word of the plight of a medical aspirant, who missed out on a seat below the 7.5% quota for NEET-qualified authorities college college students.
She studied at a personal college up to Class VI below the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act and from Class VII at a authorities college.
The court docket heard a petition filed by Shakila Banu, mom of Shabana who missed out on the medical seat. The petitioner mentioned the purposes that have been made out there on-line for admission to medical programs had no provision to point out {that a} pupil had studied at a personal college below the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.
There have been solely two columns: ‘Whether studied from 6th to 12th standard in Tamil Nadu’ and ‘Whether studied from 6th to 12th standard in Tamil Nadu Government School’. As there was no different column to point out her standing, the candidate marked the ‘no’ examine field. Ms. Shakila Banu sought a path to the federal government to contemplate the plight of her daughter.
The authorities submitted that the candidate was not thought-about as she had marked the ‘no’ examine field. Had she approached counselling officers promptly, her identify may have been added to the record. The choice committee would have been knowledgeable of the lacuna.
Justice V. Parthiban mentioned a deserving candidate was denied the profit of the preferential Act. Officials answerable for formatting the applying had not foreseen the plight of such candidates. The dream of the scholar to turn into a medical skilled couldn’t be allowed to be dashed as a result of of the failure of the officers to formulate the applying correctly. The authorities had been grossly negligent or oblivious of the standing of college students just like the petitioner’s daughter, he mentioned.
‘Moral, legal obligation’
He mentioned the federal government was below an ethical and authorized obligation to contemplate Ms. Shabana for admission on a precedence foundation within the following tutorial yr below the 7.5% quota.
He directed the federal government to reserve a seat for the candidate. The solely believable reparation the federal government may do was to make amends for the failure to present a column within the utility kind for such college students, he mentioned.
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