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Tuesday, Jul 05, 2005

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PMK for Assembly session on entrance test issue

Special Correspondent

State Government must show it is serious, says Ramadoss

CHENNAI: The Pattali Makkal Katchi on Monday reiterated the demand that the State Government convene a special Assembly session immediately to enact a law on the abolition of the common entrance test scheme.

Reacting to the Supreme Court's refusal to stay the High Court's order of overruling the State Government's action of dispensing with the CET, PMK founder S. Ramadoss said the Government had to prove that its original action was not just an "eyewash." Going by a series of legal setbacks suffered when the State Government took steps to help students from rural communities or those belonging to backward or most backward castes, many suspected whether the Government was serious. "It has the duty to clear it," Dr. Ramadoss said.

He said the Government should find out the reasons why it continued to face setbacks. If necessary, it should change its advisors on education.

Dr. Ramadoss said he had advised the Government in the beginning that it should adopt proper legal safeguards on the scrapping of the CET.

At the Secretariat, a delegation of PMK members led by party president G.K. Mani submitted a representation on similar lines to Assembly Secretary V. Rajaraman.

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