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Court asks Pondy colleges to complete admissions by Sept. 30

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, SEPT. 23 . The Madras High Court today asked an association of unaided engineering colleges in Pondicherry, which conducted the common entrance test line with its directions, to publish the merit list and complete admissions by September 25 and 30 respectively.

While the merit list shall be based on the common entrance test, the admissions shall be done taking into consideration the aggregate of marks obtained in the qualifying examinations as well as the entrance test.

A Division Bench comprising Justice K. Govindarajan and Justice S. Sardar Zackria Hussain passed the order on a writ petition filed by the Pondicherry Linguistic Minority Engineering Colleges Welfare Association, challenging certain conditions imposed by the statutory Permanent Admission Committee (PAC) in its order dated June 15.

According to the petitioner-association, the Committee's conditions included the manner of conducting the examinations, measures to avoid malpractices, single window system and the question of expenses involved in holding the common entrance test.

Entrance test expenses

However, during arguments, the Government Pleader for Pondicherry, Murugesan, submitted that the Government would bear expenses relating to the common entrance test. Recording the same, the Judges said that they need not go into the issue.

Also, there is no need to follow the single window system of counselling and admissions as the court's recent order dispensing with the SWS for management quota admissions in Tamil Nadu would hold good for Pondicherry as well.

The Union Territory of Pondicherry has four unaided self-financing engineering colleges, two at Pondicherry and one each at Karaikal and Yanam. The total intake in these institutions is 1,119, out of which nearly 650 remained vacant during the academic year 2003-04.

In its present petition, the Association contended that the PAC had passed the impugned directions without taking into consideration the "ground reality, that there is no possibility for any meritorious student to go without admission in engineering colleges. For, the available seats are much more than (the number of) aspiring candidates."

Further, the Committee proceeded on the assumption that the consortium of college managements was bent upon resorting to malpractices, it said.

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