Quota in med admission: HC to hear appeal on 

Thursday

Chennai TIMES NEWS NETWORK





Four days after a single judge of the Madras high court quashed Tamil Nadu government's policy of reserving 85% of MBBS BDS seats available under government quota for students from the state board, the matter has gone before a division bench of the court.A bench said it would hear the appeal filed by the state government on Thursday .On July 14, a single judge quashed the government's 85:15 ratio of MBBSBDS seats between state board and CBSE studentsr espectively , and charged the government with meting out “step-motherly and discriminatory“ treatment to CBSE students.
Assailing the order, the Tamil Nadu government filed an appeal contending that the government was duty-bound to make provisions so as to protect the interests of a vast majority of students from state board who did not have access to CBSE schools.
The state board students cannot be held responsible for sudden change in the pattern of admission which is mainly based on syllabus, methodology and examination entirely different from each other, the government said.
Reiterating that the Tamil Nadu government had been consistently opposing the NEET, the government wanted the court to set aside the order of the single judge and allow the authorities to implement the reservation in the admission.