HC: Can’t ask Pondy to allot medical seat to Villupuram student

HC: Can’t ask Pondy to allot medical seat to Villupuram student

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Chennai:30.01.2021

The Madras High Court on Friday made it clear that it cannot direct the Puducherry government to provide medical seat under the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) of Puducherry to a Villupuram resident who passed NEET examinations from a Puducherry School.

A division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy upheld the earlier order by a single judge, who had refused to direct three private medical colleges in Puducherry to allot 50% (75 seats each) of their intake capacity to the government quota.

The court observed that if allowed, several students living in the border villages of TN-Puducherry will claim seats in a similar manner.

The case pertains to Manikandan, a resident of Villupuram but doing his schooling in Puducherry. Manikandan had secured the 111th rank in the rank list released by the Puducherry government.

According to the petitioner, since the school where he did his education was in Puducherry limits, the Tamil Nadu government rejected his application and citing his place of residence, the Puducherry government had said he was not eligible to apply under CENTAC.

A single judge dismissed the plea moved by the student appealing against which the student moved a division bench.

On Friday, the first bench comprising the Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy after hearing the submissions made by the counsels made it clear that it is not possible for the petitioner to apply under the 7.5 percent reservation of the Tamil Nadu government school students applying for medical admissions.

The judges also accepted the state submissions that if the petitioner is allowed under the reservation, it will only result in students in the bordering villages applying to the state under the quota and dismissed the plea.