Madras HC Issues Notices for 5% Reservation for Tamil Medium Students
The Madras High Court has recently issued notices to the Government of Tamil Nadu and the DME, in order to allow Tamil Medium students to avail 5% reservation in MBBS colleges.
In a bid to ease the admissions of students who completed their school education in Tamil medium, the Madras High Court has issued notices regarding reservation of seats inMBBSfor such students. The High Court had issued notices to the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) and the State Government as well. The notices directed the respective authorities to create a provision for 5% reservation to students completing schooling in Tamil medium.
The issue has been presided over by Justices M Sathyanarayanan and R Hemalatha, who have directed the respective state authorities to give their reply before 20th February 2020.
The step had been considered after N Murugesan from Dharmapuri filed a PIL petition stating that students who complete their schooling in Tamil medium find it difficult to grab the MBBS seats inmedical colleges, even after clearing theNational Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET 2020).
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Previously, many changes had been proposed under the NEET 2020 examination, to accommodate more applicants from across the country. Some of the changes include theapplicability of NEET scores in different medical coursessuch as the variousAYUSH courses, viz.BAMS, BSMS,BHMS,BNYSandBUMS.
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Recently, the National Testing Agency, the conducting body for NEET-UG had released a notification to help clear out thedifferent doubts regarding NEET state of eligibility. For MBBS aspirants from Jammu and Kashmir,NTA had announced the offline application process, in order for them to be able to take part in the NEET 2020 examination. NTA had recently concluded the NEET 2020 application process on Jan 6th, 2020.