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Government will protect interests of students:Rangasamy

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, MARCH 30. The Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, today told the Assembly today that the Administration would protect the interests of students doing professional courses, particularly medicine. in privately managed self-financing colleges here.

Mr. Rangasamy was replying to the concern expressed earlier by members during a debate on a call attention motion tabled by A. Anbalagan (AIADMK) on the situation arising out of private medical colleges here either becoming deemed institutions or getting affiliated to deemed universities outside Pondicherry.

The Chief Minister said after consulting the Law Department, appropriate legal measures would also be taken against the institutions shifting their affiliation to deemed universities existing outside the Union Territory as such affiliation would hit the local students in getting seats as government-sponsored candidates.

Uproarious scenes

The House was at one stage drowned in noise with the AIADMK and BJP members registering their protest against the lack of effective measures to deal with institutions functioning contrary to the contents of No Objection Certificates (NOCs) issued by the State government.

Mr. Anbalagan said that one of the privately run medical colleges here had shifted its affiliation to a deemed University and had started acting contrary to the contents of the NOC.

He said that the government should also ensure that in all privately run professional colleges 50 per cent of the total seats should be filled under quota so that candidates sponsored through Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) would be benefited.

S.P. Sivakumar (DMK) said that the government should not hesitate to take over the medical college that had shifted affiliation to a deemed university outside Pondicherry.

V. Vaithilingam (Cong.) said that if the trend of getting affiliation with a deemed University in another State was permitted all private colleges here would follow suit and fill the seats on their own, rejecting the claims of local students.

At one stage the Speaker M.D.R. Ramachandran intervened and advised the Government to take over the college in question.

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