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Chennai: 13.12.2020
The Madras high court has directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to ascertain as to whether additional seats can be created in 24 government medical colleges in Tamil Nadu to accommodate waitlist students under the 7.5% reservation for government school students.
These students were constrained to opt for waitlist during admission, as they could not afford to pay the government quota fees in self-financing medical colleges. Tamil Nadu government’s announcement to pay the fee came a day after their counselling got over. “By taking this positive step, it will not put any extra burden on the government colleges in terms of infrastructure and manpower. Creation of additional seats is not something new and such additional seats have always been created whenever the situation demands,” Justice N Anand Venkatesh said.
The judge passed the interim order on a batch of pleas moved by waitlisted students under the 7.5% reservation as they could not afford the fee of self-financing colleges allotted to them. Had the government’s announcement to pay their fees come a day earlier, they would have joined the colleges.
When the pleas came up for hearing, advocate-generalVijay Narayan submittedthattill now nearly 160 seats have reverted back to the state government quota. He added that a clearer picture will evolve in a couple of days andby the nextdateof hearing, the total number of seats that can be accommodated with students falling under the 7.5% quota, can be almost frozen.
Wondering how the state is going to deal with students who could not be accommodated within the vacant seats that reverted back to the state quota, the court made the suggestion of creation of additional seats.
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