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Wednesday, Jun 09, 2004

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CET: Govt. may file review petition

By Our Staff Reporter

The Chief Minister, Dharam Singh (centre), the Deputy Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah (left), and the Ministers, P.G.R. Sindhia (second from left) and M.P.Prakash (right), arriving for the Cabinet meeting in Bangalore on Tuesday. — Photo: K. Go pinathan

BANGALORE, JUNE 8. In its first major policy decision, the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) Government today decided to approach the Supreme Court with a petition to review its judgment delivered on the seat-sharing arrangement in private professional colleges as it wanted to admit more number of students belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes to those institutions.

Briefing presspersons about the decisions taken at a meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday, the Minister for Large and Medium Industries, P.G.R. Sindhia, said that they decided to adopt last year`s formula of retaining 75 per cent of the seats out of the total sanctioned intake leaving the balance to the private college managements.

It endorsed the recommendation of the subcommittee of the S.M. Krishna Cabinet, headed by the former Medical Education Minister, A.B. Maalaka Reddy, that the Government quota in the seats be 75 per cent.

Mr. Sindhia said the meeting decided to approach the Human Resource Development Ministry to bring in a uniform legislation governing seat sharing and fixing of fees for the professional courses. However, it was for the Centre to promulgate an Ordinance giving effect to the new formula on seat sharing and fee structure.

The Supreme Court had ordered appointment of two separate committees, headed by judges of High Courts, to oversee admission and fee structure.

He said the Cabinet approved a proposal to provide subsidy to needy students. The Government would file a review petition before the High Court seeking relief in the fee structure.

The Cabinet decided to appoint a sub-committee to review the day-today developments and other issues pertaining to the professional courses. The Chief Minister would constitute it. The committee would look into the issue of cross subsidising the fee to be borne by the SC/ST and Backward Classes students.

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