AIADMK moves SC against loss of NEET seats for OBCs

AIADMK moves SC against loss of NEET seats for OBCs

Julie.Mariappan@timesgroup.com

Chennai:10.06.2020

Days after the opposition and the state government moved the Supreme Court, aggrieved over loss of NEET seats by Other Backward Classes (OBC) students, the ruling AIADMK on Monday filed a petition in the apex court seeking to restrain the Centre from proceeding with all India counselling for UG and PG medical courses, without following 50% reservation for OBC quota in TN.

In a petition, law minister C Ve Shanmugam, in his capacity as AIADMK Villupuram North district secretary, said the Centre failed to ensure adequate representation of OBCs in the All India Quota (AIQ) seats in UG, PG and diploma medical courses. “It is a fact that negligible number of OBC candidates were allocated any of the state-surrendered seats to the AIQ in noncentral government medical institutions,” the petition said. The party argued it was in contradiction to the reservation ethos in the state and the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes, SC and ST (Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions and Appointments or Posts in the Services under the State)Act,1993,that provided 50% reservation to OBCs.

It alleged that Centre was neither following its own policy of 27% reserved seats for OBCs under the Central educational institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2007, nor the state government’s 50% quota. “This has resulted in OBCs being robbed of 10,000 seats in the past three years and many more during the preceding years,” the petition said.

If the seat allocation is permitted without changes as many as 3,700 OBC candidates will have lost out seats to general category students.