Domicile quota: Tamil Nadu to file assessment plea on Supreme Courtroom order

CHENNAI: A day after Supreme Courtroom dominated that domicile-based reservation in specialised and better research like PG medical programs will not be permissible, M Okay Stalin led Tamil Nadu govt introduced it might file a assessment petition to claim its rights and uphold social justice.
Well being minister Ma Subramanian mentioned the SC order would hit the whole 69% reservation which is supplied within the state apart from affecting quotas for in-service candidates for admission in govt medical faculties and for minorities in self-financing medical faculties. Apart from, the order would take away the rights of the state, he added.
Yearly, 15% of undergraduate medical seats and 50% of postgraduate medical seats and tremendous speciality seats are earmarked for the Union govt for admission by way of the state quota. “We misplaced all seats in tremendous speciality programs. After a courtroom battle, TN ensured govt medical doctors have a quota for admission in tremendous speciality programs,” he informed reporters. Seats that can not be crammed as a consequence of lack of candidates are surrendered to Centre, he mentioned.
States fund PG and tremendous speciality medical training utterly and but share 50% of seats for admission beneath the all-India quota, he mentioned. “Now, the judgment snatches away all of the seats from us,” Subramanian informed reporters.
Though the judgment won’t have an effect on the 2024 admissions, its ramifications are anticipated to be vital for admissions from the 2025-26 tutorial 12 months, he mentioned.