M Tech row: HC reserves its orders
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:19.02.2021
The Madras high court on Thursday reserved orders on a batch of pleas challenging the decision of Anna University in suspending M Tech biotechnology and M Tech computational biology courses for the current academic year.
The courses were suspended due to differences with the Centre in implementing reservation for admission to the courses.
Concluding the final hearing, Justice B Pugalendhi said he will pass orders by February19. The petitioners said the Centre’s insistence that the university follow only 49.5% reservation and not the state’s 69% quota policy in admission is arbitrary.
Since the courses are sponsored by the Centre, it wanted the university to follow 49.5% reservation. But the state government insisted that the institute implement its 69% reservation. On February12, the All India Council of Technical Education informed the court that the courses cannot be conducted this year as the cutoff date set by the Supreme Court for admission expired on December 31, 2020.
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