Students directed to move SC for final order
Madras High court
Chennai: The Madras high court lamented that at times, intervention by courts has only added to confusion in medical college admissions and not resolved problems.“Admission to medical colleges every year has become a catastrophe and the more courts attempt to lay down a law, the more the confusion,” said Justice V. Ramasubramanian while directing a batch of candidates to move the Supreme Court for final orders regarding their request to re-open the admission list of two private medical colleges in the state so that they could gain admission there.
Twentyeight medical seat aspirants moved the court of Justice Ramasubramanian, seeking a direction to the Tagore Medical College in Chennai and Chennai Medical College and Research Centre in Tiruchy to admit them, saying that they had turned down their offer of seats because they found that their fees of '3 lakh per year was too high. However, pointed out Justice V. Ramasubramanian, these candidates have now found “a silver lining” in a recent Supreme Court’s order allowing a different batch of students to be admitted in the medical institutions by paying only '12,000 per annum that is collected by government medical colleges.
The Supreme Court had, on September 18, permitted all institutions whose recognition was not renewed for the current year, to admit students sponsored by state government from out of the merit lists maintained by them. Following this, the selection committee sponsored 150 students each to these two colleges, omitting the petitioners as they had already turned down their offer of seats. Hence, they filed the present petitions.
Expressing his inability to cancel the merit list and direct the selection committee to furnish a fresh list since the students who have already been admitted were not before the court, the judge said there appeared to be 32 and 52 vacancies in Chennai Medical College Hospital and Tagore Medical College respectively. But since the Supreme Court has made it clear that no admission shall be made after September 30, both colleges did not wish to violate the mandate and invite the wrath of the Supreme Court, the judge added. The least detrimental alternative available to him was to direct the petitioners to approach the Supreme Court for redressal, he added.
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