The Hindu : State seeks leave to notify procedure

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Tuesday, Jan 13, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

State seeks leave to notify procedure

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JAN. 12. The Tamil Nadu Government has sought the Supreme Court's permission to notify the minimum eligibility marks and the procedure for admissions to B.E./B.Tech/B.Arch for 2004-2005.

A Bench consisting of Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice G.P. Mathur today asked private self-financing engineering colleges to file their response in two weeks and the State a rejoinder in one week thereafter, and directed that the matter be listed after three weeks.

Tamil Nadu's application said the apex court already ordered `status quo' as on date of the October 17, 2003 Madras High Court judgment, holding that a mere pass in the higher secondary examination was enough for admission to engineering colleges.

The High Court held that the admission of those who had passed the higher secondary examination and appeared for the entrance test but had not secured the prescribed minimum aggregate marks (60 for OC; 55 for BC; 50 for MBC/DNC and a pass for SC/ST) in the higher secondary examination would be regularised. The apex court issued notice to the private colleges and the matter was still pending.

The Government's application said that based on subsequent directions, Anna University permitted students whose admissions were yet to be approved by the Director of Technical Education to write their first semester examination.

The Government said the All-India Council for Technical Education and the University Grants Commission had issued guidelines on November 3 and December 17 last for conducting a common entrance test for admission at the degree level in the engineering, architecture, planning and pharmacy programmes for 2004-2005.

Admissions to BE had been done by standardising the marks in the higher secondary examination and the common entrance test in the ratio of 2:1 since 1984-85.

The procedure was continued without any modification even after the single window system was introduced.

The State used to notify the procedure every January. Therefore in view of the urgency, it sought the court's permission to notify the minimum eligibility marks and the admission procedure.

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