New Delhi: The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of general
category students in Tamil Nadu and asked the state to create additional
seats in educational institutions, particularly those in medicine.
This
notice will immediately benefit 24 medical and engineering students
with 99 per cent marks, who couldn't get admission anywhere in the state
due to the 69 per cent quota. The number of students who could
eventually benefit could be much higher.
Tamil Nadu has 69 per
cent reservation in education and government jobs for the backward
classes, most backward classes and ST/SCs, passed by the Tamil Nadu
assembly as an Act. This is much higher than the 49.5 per cent for
SC/STs and OBCs in other parts of the country. The Supreme Court has put
a ceiling of 50 per cent for reservations. Tamil Nadu's quota has been
in place since 1994.
The 69 per cent quota was challenged in Supreme Court for its
constitutional validity. The court had earlier asked the state
government to re-examine the issue through a Backward Classes Commission
if it wanted to breach the 50 per cent ceiling, based on the court's
guidelines regarding local conditions. The state reverted that it will
continue with this quota since 1991 Census data showed the population of
backward classes and SC/STs in the state was close to 88 per cent.
This
has now been challenged in the Supreme court, following which it issued
a notice to the state government, telling to increase the number of
seats.
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