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BE Admission Procedure Unchanged this Year

BE Admission Procedure Unchanged this Year

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Thursday permitted the Tamil Nadu government to conduct admissions to engineering (BE / B.Tech) courses as per existing procedure this year since the selection process has already been initiated.

However, it struck down three legal provisions mandating self-financing colleges to give seats to the government quota, adopt single window counselling for management quota seats, and admit students on the basis of marks scored in Plus Two examinations.

Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy said that the State will appeal against the verdict quashing the key provisions of the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act. The judgment delivered by the First Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice P Jyothimani gives rights to the managements of the unaided minority and non-minority engineering colleges in matters of admission from next year.

“Section 4(1) compels unaided institutions to admit students only on the basis of marks obtained in the qualifying examination. It takes away the right of the institutions to hold common entrance test...In our opinion, sections 2 (c) (iii), 4(1) and 5 (4) of the Act are ultravires and violative of Article 19(l) (g) and Article 30 of the Constitution” the court held.

At the same time, the judges have ensured that the future of students who had applied for the single window counselling this year is not at stake. The single window counselling to government quota seats will go as scheduled on July 18 at the Anna University in Chennai. With the court holding that last year's procedure will be applicable for 2007-08, Self Financing Institutions will end up surrendering 65 per cent of the seats to the common pool. Likewise, unaided minority colleges will part with 50 per cent of the seats.

BE Admission Procedure Unchanged this Year

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