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`Consensus the only solution'

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KPCC chief fears that students will lose a year

KOZHIKODE: Grave concern at the uncertainties facing students awaiting admission to professional courses in the State was the recurring theme in speeches at a seminar on "Law on self-financing colleges and minorities" organised by the District Congress Committee at Town Hall on Wednesday.

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala, who inaugurated the seminar, expressed the view that no amount of litigation would bring lasting solutions to the problems thrown up the latest law on admission to self-financing courses enacted by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government and said only a consensus on the issue would settle the dispute. "Why has not the Government so far convened an all-party meeting to seek a consensus instead of standing on false prestige? Why has not the Government cared to call a meeting of students' unions?", the KPCC president wondered.

He added the Government was hoping to make an order of the Supreme Court an excuse the wriggle out of the embarrassing situation it had got into. M.I. Shanawas, KPCC(I) leader, who introduced the theme of the seminar, said it would not be possible for the Government to enforce the new law on admission to self-financing courses since it went against the spirit of a Supreme Court order, which said Government control in the functioning of the institution should be minimum. Government control imposed beyond a certain limit would amount to nationalisation of educational institutions.

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