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Surrender of seats: court reserves orders

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday reserved its orders on a batch of writ appeals on the surrender of seats by unaided professional colleges, and management quota admissions through centralised counselling on the basis of marks in qualifying examinations.

The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice P. Jyothimani, also directed the association of self-financing engineering colleges and the lone private medical college to furnish details as to how they proposed to admit students in view of the absence of a common entrance test this year, and explain their opposition to the single window system of admission.

The Bench said an order in the matter was likely to be delivered on Thursday.

Earlier, Advocate-General R. Viduthalai submitted that the impugned Sections of 4(1) and 5(4) of the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institution Act were regulatory measures intended to ensure transparency and merit. “The provisions have to be construed as an appropriate regulatory measure for securing transparency and recognition of merit in the matter of admissions,” he said, adding that the provision for centralised counselling or single window system by an authority authorised by the Government was within the bounds laid down by the Supreme Court in the P.A. Inamdar case.

Similarly, the voluntary agreement for seat-sharing is an aspect for maintenance of merit and hence it can only be a one-time agreement and not an annual exercise, “since merit, as the criterion for admission, is an essential ingredient for all time to come.”

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