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HC allows doctors’ plea for admission to PG courses

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CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has allowed a writ petition by 10 doctors, working as medical officers in the Perundurai medical college, seeking a direction to the selection committee to consider them for admission to postgraduate courses during 2008-09 under the service category.

D. Chandramohan and nine others submitted that after they passed MBBS, they were appointed medical officers in the Perundurai college in Erode district through the employment exchange. By a 1995 circular, the Director of the Institute of Road Transport treated the institution as a State Government undertaking.

Service candidates

When they applied for admission to postgraduate courses as service candidates, for whom 50 per cent of the seats in postgraduate and diploma courses are reserved, they were treated as non-service candidates.

The entrance examination was held in February.

Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar said that through an interim order last month, the petitioners were permitted to take part in the counselling, and three candidates were selected for admission.

However, the results were not declared because of the conditional order passed by the court.

Since a Division Bench had settled the controversy through a judgment in November 2006 treating the college as a government undertaking, the petitioners were entitled to be treated as service candidates for admission to postgraduate diploma and degree and MDS courses, he said, allowing the petition.

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