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Adhere to AICTE norms: Nallakannu

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry June 7. The Tamil Nadu CPI secretary, R. Nallakannu, has stressed that the Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry Governments should ensure that meritorious students belonging to poorer sections did not suffer because of the ``impractical system of admission now adopted by private managements'' for professional courses.

Addressing presspersons here today, he said there should be ``proper vigil'' on the working of the private colleges and nothing should be done by entrepreneurs to ``damage'' the system of reservation. ``Merit should never be let to suffer.'' The guidelines of the All-India Council of Technical Education and the Medical Council of India should be adhered to.

Welcoming the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, suggestion for coalitions, he said the left parties ``would go into it at an appropriate time.''

The constituents of the NDA should reconsider their continuing in the front, particularly when the ``serious impact'' of the Prevention of Terrorism Act had been felt in the form of arrest of leaders such as MDMK's Vaiko, he said.

The secretary of the Pondicherry unit, N. Kalainathan, demanded that Pondicherry also be declared drought-hit. Although Karaikal had been so declared, nothing had been done to relieve the farmers of their hardship.

Mr. Nallakannu was here to participate in a two-day meeting of the Pondicherry unit of the CPI, which concluded here today.

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