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AIADMK to move court on medical college seats

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Congress government `not keen on taking practical steps to solve issue' "Instead of indulging in doublespeak parties under the DPA should sever their commercial links with the colleges that were adopting a negative stand in admitting students."

PONDICHERRY: The Pondicherry State unit of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) will soon file a petition in Madras High Court seeking its directives to the two privately run unaided medical colleges here to admit students under the government quota in spite of the institutions having become `deemed universities'. The two institutions, Vinayaka Mission at Karaikal and Aarupadai Veedu Medical College in Pondicherry, are refusing to admit students under the government quota on the grounds that they were `deemed universities.'

Addressing newsmen here on Monday, the Secretary of the party and Member of the Legislative Assembly, A. Anbalagan said that the Congress government here was only paying lip service to reservations without taking any practical action.

Medical education involved only less than Rs 4500 as fees in privately run institutions in Tamil Nadu and in JIPMER, Pondicherry it was around Rs 6500 a year. But in Pondicherry, the government itself was fixing Rs 1.50 lakh or Rs 1.25 lakh as fees for certain private colleges. This was unjust and unfair, he claimed.

Mr. Anbalagan said that political parties coming under the Democratic Progressive Alliance would be holding a bandh here on Tuesday on the issue of admission of students to the MBBS course in private institutions here. But he would be pleased if some of the parties constituting the pro-bandh coordination committee discontinued their commercial relations with the managements of the private institutions. The commercial links were seen in the form of providing vehicles, running of canteens and also hostels by some parties.

Instead of indulging in doublespeak these parties should sever their commercial links with the colleges that were adopting a negative stand in admitting students as per orders.

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