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7.5 percent reservation for govt students Constitutionally Valid: Madras HC
Chennai: Putting an end to the ongoing legal conflict regarding the 7.5% reservation in MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH courses for government school students, the Madras High Court bench recently upheld the reservation policy as constitutionally valid.Although the HC bench comprising of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy has held that the Government has power...
Chennai: Putting an end to the ongoing legal conflict regarding the 7.5% reservation in MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH courses for government school students, the Madras High Court bench recently upheld the reservation policy as constitutionally valid.
Although the HC bench comprising of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy has held that the Government has power to provide for the reservation, it has also opined that the policy should be reviewed after five years.
"For all the reasons stated above, we uphold constitutional validity of The Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act, 2020 (Act 34 of 2020) and all the Writ Petitions are dismissed, however, with a direction to the State Government to review the same in period of five years as recommended by the Commission and during the intervening period steps be taken to improve the standard of education imparted in the Government schools, so that the reservation may not further be extended beyond the period of five years. Consequently, W.M.Ps are closed," read the order passed by the court on Thursday.
Terming the judgement as historic, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin speaking in the Assembly said the law was brought based on proper statistics and discussions, adds IANS. Stalin said this is the third victory for the DMK government in 10 months for social justice.
He also said the DMK government had passed a law to provide 7.5 per cent reservation in engineering/agriculture/fisheries/veterinary courses in government colleges, universities and leading self financed colleges.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the Tamil Nadu Assembly had unanimously passed the bill providing a 7.5 percent quota within the existing reservation in MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH courses for government school students. It would be applicable for students clearing the NEET exam.
Barsha completed her Master's in English from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.