Pondicherry: Students and their parents agitated over the virtual chaos prevailing in Pondicherry on the actual quota of seats the government had finalised in the privately managed self financing professional colleges for students selected through joint entrance test conducted by the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) in engineering and medicine courses during 2006-2007 have intensified their stir to push their demand.

A State level association of students (aspiring to do professional courses) and their parents has been formed and its maiden joint meeting here on Sunday resolved that the association holds a procession on June 22 to urge the Administration to ensure that each of the professional colleges run by private entrepreneurs had earmarked 70 per cent of the sanctioned intake in the courses for the students sponsored by the government through the CENTAC.

A spokesman of the association told The Hindu on Monday that a detailed memorandum containing the demand and also the sufferings the students were now facing in getting admission would be presented by a delegation of the association to the Chief Minister at the end of the procession seeking his intervention in this regard. The students and their parents would sit in fast in Bharathi park on June 26 to press the demand.

It had been the grievance of the students that the private colleges were not coming forward to admit the students in keeping with the commitment that they share the seats equally with the government. The association said that the Pondicherry Administration should emulate the firm approach by the Tamil Nadu government in procuring seats under the quota of the government.

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