Members of the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Tuesday staged a demonstration in front of the Directorate of Health demanding a probe by a retired judge of Madras High Court into alleged irregularities in admission of students in self-financing medical colleges in the Union Territory.
The activists alleged that the government had granted no objection certificates to the colleges on the condition that they would surrender 50 per cent of the seats under the government quota for students hailing from Puducherry.
However, the management remained defiant and refused to surrender the seats.
The CPI activists said that the ruling Congress and previous AINRC supported the managements. Alleging lack of transparency in the admission of students through CENTAC, the CPI sought probe headed by retired judge of Madras High Court into alleged irregularities in the last three years.
The government should come clean on the total number of students admitted, vacancies in the private colleges. It should cancel the NOC granted to the medical colleges for failing to abide by the fee structure fixed by the fee committee.
