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Management quota admissions not till August 12: consortium

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, AUG. 4. The Consortium of Professional, Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu will not make admissions for seats under the management quota till August 12, when its appeal, along with three other pleas, comes up for hearing in the Madras High Court, the consortium president, Jeppiaar, who argued the appeal because of ongoing court boycott, told the court.

Recording the undertaking, a Division Bench, comprising Justice N. Dhinakar and Justice A. Kulasekaran, posted the appeals to August 12.

Four appeals arise out of an order of the Permanent Committee Constituted for the Conduct of Common Entrance Test, imposing several conditions, including conducting counselling and making admissions through the single window system (SWS), adherence to the rule of reservation, following the Anna University examination pattern.

Rule of reservation

On July 13, Justice D. Murugesan stayed the operation of some key clauses, including the SWS, but reiterated that the rule of reservation should be followed by unaided colleges for admissions under the management quota.

While the All-India Medical and Engineering Colleges Association chose to appeal against the order, praying for a stay on the clause relating to the rule of reservation, the consortium preferred a review petition before the same judge.

It filed the present appeal after the review plea was dismissed.

In the mean time, the Government also preferred an appeal against the order, stating that the SWS alone would help meritorious students obtain seats in unaided colleges.

In its petition, the consortium said the single judge, while rightly holding that self-financing colleges were entitled to administer their institutions, including the right to admit students, with full autonomy, "incorrectly" concluded that unaided minority institutions must surrender seats to Government if they could not be filled up with candidates from the minority community.

It also assailed another condition that non-minority institutions must apply the rule of reservation in filling up seats under the management quota.

In its appeal, the Forum of Tamil Nadu Minority Self-Financing Engineering Colleges said the bar on minority institutions from admitting students from non-minority communities "would take away the rights of the non-minority students to get admission under the management quota of minority institutions, as also the rights of minority institutions in admitting students on a par with non-minority institutions."

It also opposed the restriction on permission to admit students from other States for this year alone.

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