HC judge lauds 7.5% horizontal quota

HC judge lauds 7.5% horizontal quota

It is ‘the greatest’ thing to have happened in the State in a long time, says Justice Anand Venkatesh

03/12/2020

Landmark decision: The judge said the 7.5% reservation would be a turning point for government school students.

Mohamed Imranullah S.CHENNAI

Justice N. Anand Venkatesh of the Madras High Court on Wednesday lauded the enactment of the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act, 2020.

The judge told Advocate-General (A-G) Vijay Narayan that the 7.5% horizontal reservation for government school students in medical college admissions was “the greatest” thing to have happened in the State in a long time.

“This will be a turning point for government school students and will change their family status altogether,” he said.

The observations were made while hearing petitions filed by the parents of students R. Dharshini and A. Elakkiya of Cuddalore district. Senior Counsel P. Wilson said the students had been offered seats under the 7.5% quota in private colleges, but were kept in the waiting list because they were apprehensive of paying the fees.

Entire expenditure

However, the A-G told the court that the government had now decided to bear the entire expenditure to be incurred for educating all students admitted under the 7.5% quota, even if they get allotted to private colleges. “These students need not pay even a single paisa. Even their food will be sponsored by the State,” he said.

At the time of counselling, a government order to this effect had not been issued. However, the officials gave an oral assurance to the students that the government would bear the expenditure.

“About 95% of the students accepted the oral assurance, obtained the allotment letters and joined the colleges allotted to them,” the A-G said.

However, a small section of students did not join private colleges despite accepting the allotment letters as they feared that they would not be able to pay the fees.

“We will revalidate the allotment letters of these students and make sure that they join the colleges. There was a third category of students who did not accept the allotment letters at all,” he added.

“The present petitioners fall under the third category. We are trying our best to accommodate this category also after the return of unfilled seats to the State government from the all-India quota. Every year, the Centre returns 100 to 150 seats to the State government. Apart from that, some private colleges also surrender their seats to the government quota,” he said.

“After these seats are returned, the 7.5% quota would be applied to them, too,” the A-G assured the court.

The judge recorded his submission and adjourned the two writ petitions for December 11, since it was represented to the court that the number of unfilled seats under the all-India quota would be made known by the Director General of Health Services by December 8.

Govt: 7.5% quota seats being worked out for waitlisted candidates

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Govt: 7.5% quota seats being worked out for waitlisted candidates

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Chennai:03.12.2020

The Tamil Nadu government has assured the Madras high court that it would work out seats for waitlisted government school candidates under the 7.5% quota in medical and dental courses.

These students were kept on the waitlist as they did not take government quota seats in private college because they could not afford the fees. While annual fee in is less than ₹20,000 in government medical colleges, the state quota seats in private colleges cost more than ₹4.5 lakh per annum as tuition fee.

Advocate general Vijay Narayan made the submission on a batch of pleas moved by such students.

Representing the petitioners, senior advocate P Wilson submitted that the government’s offer to pay fees in private medical colleges for such students was made on November 20. But the students who had been called for counselling on November 18 and could not take the allotted seats in private colleges, as they were not able to afford the fees. They were then kept in the waitlist, Wilson said.

He submitted that the government’s fee offer should be given retrospective effect and applied to petitioners and similarlyplaced candidates.

Recording the submissions, Justice N Anand Venkatesh adjourned the hearing to December 11.

In their petitions, A Rajalakshmi and others said since they were not in a position to afford huge fees in private colleges allotted to them, they were compelled to opt for waiting list.

While so, a day after their counselling, the director of medical education addressed all the deans of self-financing medical and dental colleges coming under the single window selection to admit all the candidates under 7.5% government school reservation without insisting on fees.

Therefore, the petitioners wanted the court to direct the authorities to grant admission to them for MBBS/dental course of their choice as per rank, communal, horizontal reservations and other factors.

This apart, the petitioners also wanted the court to pass an interim order restraining the authorities from filling up all seats in MBBS course in MBC category under 7.5% horizontal reservation pending disposal of the plea.

Colleges reopen, students stay away

Colleges reopen, students stay away

Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com

Chennai:03.12.2020

After a gap of more than eight months, arts and science, and professional colleges across Tamil Nadu reopened on Wednesday for postgraduate students and research scholars. But most colleges in Chennai reported thin attendance.

Colleges took precautionary measures and checked body temperatures of students at the entrance and provided them hand sanitizers.

“After a long time, our students have come to our campus. They had a meeting with their guides. From December 7, we are planning to hold classes in full swing for undergraduate and postgraduate final year students,” said S Kothai, principal of Ethiraj College for Women.

Students who live in Chennai came but those in far-flung areas expressed their inability to attend classes citing lack of transport, she said.

Principal of a government college in the city said: “Some parents have sent us letters saying they are not willing to send their children to college and some students said they cannot attend the classes as there was no transport.”

DG Vaishnav College recorded less than 50% attendance among PG students and research scholars.

“We are expecting more students on the campus from Monday. We are planning to start with value education classes,” said S Santhosh Baboo, principal of the college.

“Though we are reopening from Wednesday, we will not force students to come to the campuses,” said M G Ragunathan, principal of Guru Nanak College. He said the college will be lenient on attendance for now.

Colleges are planning to have their online semester exams from the second week of December. Some principals said it is the wrong time to reopen colleges as students will be preparing for the exams.

Professors from Anna University said research scholars and postgraduate students turned up in good numbers after the reopening. Professors from the University of Madras said some scholars visited their departments on Wednesday.

Colleges outside Chennai had few students. No postgraduate student turned up at PSG College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore. Teachers said they have completed the syllabus and students have been preparing for the semester exams.

NEW CHAPTER: Final year PG students attend a class at Queen Mary’s College on Wednesday

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டிச., 05 (ச) அரவிந்தர் நினைவு நாள்
டிச., 05 (ச) திருநள்ளாறு சனி பகவான் ஆராதனை
டிச., 07 (தி) சிவன் கோயிலில் சங்காபிஷேகம்
டிச., 08 (செ) கால பைரவாஷ்டமி
டிச., 11 (வெ) பாரதி பிறந்த நாள்
டிச., 12 (ச) மகா பிரதோஷம்
டிச., 14 (தி) சிவன் கோயிலில் சங்காபிஷேகம்
டிச., 16 (பு) மார்கழி பூஜை ஆரம்பம்
டிச., 22 (செ) கணித தினம்
டிச., 25 (வெ) கிறிஸ்துமஸ்
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மருத்துவ கல்வி இயக்குனர் எச்சரிக்கை

மருத்துவ கல்வி இயக்குனர் எச்சரிக்கை

Added : டிச 02, 2020 23:50

சென்னை:''மருத்துவ கவுன்சிலிங்கின் போது, போலி ஆவணங்கள் கொடுத்தால் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்,'' என, மருத்துவ கல்வி இயக்குனர் நாராயணபாபு எச்சரித்துள்ளார்.

எம்.பி.பி.எஸ்., - பி.டி.எஸ்., படிப்புகளுக்கான கவுன்சிலிங், சென்னை, பெரியமேட்டில் உள்ள, நேரு விளையாட்டரங்கில் நடந்து வருகிறது. இந்த கவுன்சிலிங்கின் போது, நான்கு மாணவர்களின் ஆவணங்கள் சரியாக இல்லாததால், அவர்களுக்கு இடங்கள் ஒதுக்குவது நிறுத்தி வைக்கப்பட்டது. சட்ட வல்லுனர்களுடன் ஆலோசனை நடத்திய, மருத்துவ இயக்கக அதிகாரிகள் குழு, மாணவர்களின் விண்ணப்பங்களை நிராகரித்தது.

இது குறித்து, மருத்துவ கல்வி இயக்குனர் நாராயணபாபு கூறியதாவது:நிராகரிக்கப்பட்ட மாணவர்கள், தாசில்தாரின் இறுதி கையெழுத்திட்ட சான்றிதழை கொடுக்காமல், கிராம நிர்வாக அலுவலரிடம், இருப்பிடத்துக்கான சான்றிதழை பெற்றுள்ளனர். அதன் காரணமாக, சான்றிதழ் சரிபார்த்த குழுவினரின் ஆலோசனைபடி, நான்கு பேரின் விண்ணப்பங்கள் நிராகரிக்கப்பட்டன. மாணவர்கள் போலி ஆவணங்கள் கொடுத்து, முறைகேட்டில் ஈடுபட்டிருந்தால், சட்டப்படியான நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்.இவ்வாறு, அவர் கூறினார்.

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When court proceedings went live on YouTube

When court proceedings went live on YouTube

The live webcast, under the subject “Arrears,” was taken down after thousands of students began accessing it and the media started taking note of it.

Published: 02nd December 2020 04:31 AM 

By Harish Murali

Express News Service

CHENNAI: Following recent attempts by college students to join virtual court proceedings on petitions challenging the government decision to cancel arrears examinations, a section of students on Tuesday went one step further by webcasting the proceedings live on YouTube for a few hours.

The live webcast, under the subject “Arrears,” was taken down after thousands of students began accessing it and the media started taking note of it. Gaining access, under the guise of an advocate, to the virtual court proceedings conducted on Microsoft Teams platform, the students shared the proceedings using cast option on YouTube.

On November 20, a Division Bench of Justices Sathyanarayanan and R Hemalatha began the hearing, when at least 250 students gained access to the proceedings and started shouting, forcing the Benech to suspend the proceedings.

On Tuesday, the court, taking note of the earlier disruption, restricted entry to the platform, permitting only advocates who had been listed for each case. Even the media which usually covered court proceedings were not allowed entry. 

Censuring students who webcast the proceedings, the Bench observed, “In the light of the fact that this virtual system is being abused by certain persons, we are shifting the arrears challenge petitions to physical hearing.” The Bench also warned the students of contempt proceedings for the live webcast.

It passed interim directions by restraining all universities in the State from declaring an ‘all pass’ result when arrears exams were not conducted, either online or offline mode or a combination of both. The Bench refused to accept the State’s arguments that the examinations were cancelled keeping in mind of the safety of students during the pandemic.

Counsel for University Grants Commission told the Bench on Tuesday that cancellation of the examinations was in violation of its guidelines. One of the petitioners also said that a few universities, especially Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and University of Madras, were releasing results without conducting examinations.

The Bench observed that universities across the State are free to conduct their examinations through online or offline mode or a combination of both, despite the government passing an order on cancelling the examinations. “Let the State government permit the universities to conduct arrears examinations, if they want to do so. The choice has to be left to them,” the Bench said, adjourning the plea to January 11.