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"Regulation for Ph.D admission archaic"

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Varsity asked to consider case of applicant who did Plus-Two in private

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the University of Madras to consider the Ph.D application of a candidate, who had appeared for Plus-Two examination as a private candidate.

C. Sadhanandan completed his SSLC in March 1995. He wrote his Plus-Two examination before clearing his graduate and postgraduate courses through distance education. He completed his M. Phil in August 2005 and applied for admission to Ph.D programme.

In January 2006, his application was rejected on the basis of a regulation, which said candidates with less than 17 years of total duration of the course were not eligible for admission to Ph.D. programme.

Assailing the provision, the candidate preferred the present writ petition.

Allowing the plea, Justice V. Ramasubramanian said the impugned provision entered the statute book of the university before the advent of the correspondence education and open university system.

It was an archaic regulation and had no relevance as on date, and added, "it is not open to the university to offer courses through the open university system and through the institutes of correspondence education, and yet take a stand that those courses will not be recognised for the purpose of pursuing research."

He directed the university to consider the application without reference to the impugned regulation and pass appropriate orders in four weeks.

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