MBBS, BDS Admissions in Tamil Nadu: 7.5 percent Quota will ensure seats for 400 aspirants from Government schools
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday said the 7.5 per cent reservation provided to government school students in medical education would ensure over 400 such seats for them this year, as against the mere six earlier. The government introduced the said quota after he was 'moved' by the plight of these students unable to pursue medical education, the chief minister said.
The reservation would help government school students get 405 seats in its introductory 2020-21 academic year, he said at the medical counselling, where he gave away orders to students who were beneficiaries of the new quota. The Tamil Nadu Assembly had earlier adopted a bill envisaging 7.5 per cent reservation in undergraduate medical courses to government school students who have cleared the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).
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Governor Banwarilal Purohit had given his assent to the quota bill on October 30, a day after the government took the executive route and issued an order for implementing the quota from this year itself, amid pressure from political parties for its immediate enforcement.
On Wednesday, Palaniswami claimed credit for his government in transforming the lives of the government school students by facilitating their admissions in medical colleges through the 7.5 per cent reservation. "Being a student of a government school, I realised their plight and decided to improve their prospects in pursuing higher education, especially in the medical field. Hence, my government enacted the GO on 7.5 per cent (horizontal) quota," he said.
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