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Orders reserved on unaided colleges’ plea

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court reserved its orders on a batch of writ petitions on the seat-sharing arrangement between the unaided professional colleges and the Government and also the latter’s insistence on single window system (SWS) of admissions for management quota seats.

Justice V. Dhanapalan reserved the orders on Wednesday after Advocate-General R. Viduthalai and other senior counsel for various unaided self-financing colleges associations completed their arguments.

The petitioners have challenged the validity of three specific clauses in the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act 2006 and the consequential Government Order dated May 25, 2007. The impugned order directed the colleges to follow SWS to admit students under the management quota; to have the qualifying examination marks as basis for admissions; and to allocate certain percentage of seats for the Government quota.

The Government, in its counter, has said last year’s consensus and agreement on the surrender of 65 per cent of the seats in non-minority institutions and 50 per cent in minority institutions to the Government quota would hold good for this academic year also.

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