TN govt also moves HC over Neet quota

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Chennai:18.06.2020

A day after the Madras high court directed the Union government to respond to pleas moved by the DMK, AIADMK and others challenging its decision not to provide 50% OBC reservation in All India Quota (AIQ) for admission to medical courses, the Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday moved a similar plea.

Admitting the plea, a division bench of Justice R Subbiah and Justice Krishnan Ramaswamy tagged the plea with the other pending petitions and adjourned the hearing to June 22.

In his petition, health secretary J Radhakrishnan said Tamil Nadu, at present, provides 50% reservation for OBCs in admission to medical courses and so the Centre is mandated to provide the same percentage of reservation of seats surrendered to All India Quota, he said, adding that the Union government had failed to comply with the mandate.