The Hindu : SC allows CMC to have its own admission procedure

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SC allows CMC to have its own admission procedure

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI JULY 4. The Supreme Court has permitted the Christian Medical College, Vellore, to have its own admission procedure to fill up all the 60 seats in the MBBS course for 2003-2004.

A vacation Bench comprising Justice R.C. Lahoti and Justice Brijesh Kumar by an interim order passed on Thursday said the college could fill up 45 seats from the Christian community candidates, seven through "open merit", three from SCs/STs, four from the economically disadvantaged sections and one to be nominated by the Central Government.

The Bench passed the order after hearing counsel for the petitioner, Abhishek Singhvi, P.H. Parekh and senior counsel for Tamil Nadu, C.S. Vaidyanathan. It rejected the contention that the power to fill up 15 seats meant for non-minority candidates should be vested with the State Government.

The effect of the order would be that the CMC would continue to make admission on the basis of an all-India competitive examination conducted by it as it had been doing for the last few years based on the earlier interim orders of the apex court.

In its petition, the CMC contended that after the apex court pronounced its judgment on the admission procedure for minority educational institutions, the State Government passed an order on May 14 directing the college to admit 40 per cent of the students on the basis of a common entrance test conducted by the Tamil Nadu Government and the remaining 60 per cent by the management.

The G.O. further said that even in the remaining 60 per cent the college should follow the rules of reservation, which meant that only 11 out of the 60 seats could be admitted by the management making a mockery of the constitutional rights guaranteed to the petitioner.

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