Hyderabad: Counsels representing the Andhra Pradesh Higher Education Council and the Andhra Pradesh government submitted that Sections 75 and 95 of the AP Reorganisation Act stipulated that there should be common admissions for both the states for a period of 10 years in all professional courses and the existing reservation system should be followed.
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Reacting to the submissions, the bench said that the admission process should be in accordance with the provisions of the Reorganisation Act.
When counsels brought to the notice of the bench that the Telangana government had laid the condition in its fee reimbursement scheme that 1956 would be the base year to ascertain the nativity of students, the bench replied that it would have to look into that issue as it was not before it.
Mr Dammalapati Srinivas, additional advocate-general of AP, later opined that as per the ruling of the apex court, the admissions should be completed in accordance with Article 371D of the Constitution with regard to nativity of the students.
