Pondicherry: General Secretary of the AICC V. Narayanasamy charged the Government with violating its own order while finalising seats under the Government quota in private medical and engineering colleges in the Union Territory.

He said in a release here on Thursday that the Government had issued an order a month ago stipulating that each of the privately run self-financing professional colleges here should earmark 50 per cent of their total sanctioned strength for admission of students under Government quota. But curiously enough the Government had violated the order and had struck a deal recently with private managements for allocation of 280 seats in MBBS courses in seven private colleges here in a haphazard manner.

The CM finalised the order in consultation with his cabinet colleagues. But the fixing of seats, which was less than fifty per cent of the total strength, was injurious to aspirants. Mr. Narayanasamy referred to the initiative of the State Governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala that had safeguarded Government-sponsored candidates.

He said he had also held discussions with the new Lt. Governor Mukut Mithi seeking his intervention.

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