TT player moves HC seeking MBBS seat in sports quota
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:17.07.2018
A 19-year-old table tennis player from Palani in Dindigul district, who has won medals in district and divisional level competitions, has approached the Madurai bench of the Madras high court seeking its intervention to get her MBBS admission in any of the government colleges in the state.
N Cheral Yazhini, who completed Class 12 in 2016, had written the national eligibility cum entrance test (NEET) this year and scored 163 marks. Contending that there has been no transparency on how the directorate of medical education selected eligible candidates under sports quota, the petitioner sought the court’s help. She claimed that those who scored lesser marks than her under the sports quota scoring system for admission to MBBS/BDS courses in the state had been included in the list, but not her.
The petition said she has been participating in zonal, district and divisional level table tennis tournaments since 2012 until she finished school in 2016. In the four years that she played the sport, she secured seven gold medals in district-level tournaments and two silver and two bronze medals in divisional-level tournaments. “It is my ambition to become a doctor. Hence, though I completed school in 2016, I waited for two years to join MBBS without joining any other course,” the petitioner stated.
After passing NEET this year, the petitioner was awaiting the list of sports quota candidates.
The directorate of medical education had put up a list of candidates eligible under the sports quota for counselling on its website on June 30. However, much to her chagrin, her name was missing from the list.
The girl, in her petition, said that according to the admission prospectus published by the DME, she had secured 465 marks based on marks allotted for individual medals in district and divisional tournaments.
Claiming that the list had only 44 eligible candidates, some of whom scored less than her, the petitioner sought the court’s intervention to declare the list as illegal. Justice M S Ramesh admitted the petition and sought a response from the concerned authorities.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:17.07.2018
A 19-year-old table tennis player from Palani in Dindigul district, who has won medals in district and divisional level competitions, has approached the Madurai bench of the Madras high court seeking its intervention to get her MBBS admission in any of the government colleges in the state.
N Cheral Yazhini, who completed Class 12 in 2016, had written the national eligibility cum entrance test (NEET) this year and scored 163 marks. Contending that there has been no transparency on how the directorate of medical education selected eligible candidates under sports quota, the petitioner sought the court’s help. She claimed that those who scored lesser marks than her under the sports quota scoring system for admission to MBBS/BDS courses in the state had been included in the list, but not her.
The petition said she has been participating in zonal, district and divisional level table tennis tournaments since 2012 until she finished school in 2016. In the four years that she played the sport, she secured seven gold medals in district-level tournaments and two silver and two bronze medals in divisional-level tournaments. “It is my ambition to become a doctor. Hence, though I completed school in 2016, I waited for two years to join MBBS without joining any other course,” the petitioner stated.
After passing NEET this year, the petitioner was awaiting the list of sports quota candidates.
The directorate of medical education had put up a list of candidates eligible under the sports quota for counselling on its website on June 30. However, much to her chagrin, her name was missing from the list.
The girl, in her petition, said that according to the admission prospectus published by the DME, she had secured 465 marks based on marks allotted for individual medals in district and divisional tournaments.
Claiming that the list had only 44 eligible candidates, some of whom scored less than her, the petitioner sought the court’s intervention to declare the list as illegal. Justice M S Ramesh admitted the petition and sought a response from the concerned authorities.
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