The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday passed an order to provide 7.5% reservation in medical colleges from this academic year to students f...
The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday passed an order to provide 7.5% reservation in medical colleges from this academic year to students from government schools who have cleared the entrance examinations, PTI reported.
The government order was notified even as a bill, passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly, for this reservation is awaiting Governor Banwarilal Purohit’s assent. The Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to the students of the Government Schools Bill, 2020, was passed in the Assembly on September 15. Several leaders in Tamil Nadu, including Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief MK Stalin, have urged Purohit to approve the bill.
The government order said that since the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test results are now out, there is an urgency to resolve the matter. NEET results were announced on October 16. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami had earlier said that over 300 medical seats would go to economically backward students from government students due to this sub-quota.
The 7.5% quota would be applicable to those who studied in government schools from Class 6 to Class 12 and would be applicable in each category of vertical reservation that the Tamil Nadu government follows within the...
