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`Pondy also must scrap entrance test'

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AIADMK plans massive demonstration

PONDICHERRY: The decision of the Tamil Nadu Government to consider only the plus two public examination marks and to scrap the entrance test for admitting students to professional colleges with immediate effect "is a step in the right direction," A. Anbalagan, MLA and secretary of the Pondicherry All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, has said.

The Union Territory Administration should emulate the measure to enable students to join the professional courses here without hiccups.

Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, the Union Territory Administration was in a dilemma without taking a firm decision on the quota of seats the Government-sponsored candidates would get in privately-managed medical colleges. The parents and students were kept guessing.

Mr. Anbalagan said there should be a 50:50 pattern of sharing of seats in privately-run medical colleges. He recalled how the students were put to hardship with the Government having been able to fill only 40 per cent of the seats in private colleges.

The Supreme Court's directive of 50-50 should be zealously followed to help the students to join the colleges.

Mr. Anbalagan had in the past adopted the system of selecting candidates for professional courses only on the basis of plus two examination marks. Only a few years ago, entrance test was introduced causing hardship to students particularly those hailing from the rural areas. Hence the status quo ante should be restored, he said.

AIADMK plans stir

Mr. Anbalagan said volunteers and functionaries of different wings of the party would stage a "massive demonstration" in front of Rajnivas (housing office-cum-residence of the Lt. Governor) here on June 9 to urge the Administration to adopt a 50:50 pattern of sharing of seats in professional colleges.

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