Improve courses of study in colleges in Puducherry: Madras HC

Updated on: Monday, August 22, 2011

The Madras High Court directed the Puducherry government to take steps to improve the courses of study in colleges in the union territory.
  
Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam, passing the order on a petition by one Jinos Basheer, said government should improve the courses in consultation with Pondicherry University and take a decision "as expeditiously as possible."
  
Basheer had contended that Mahatma Gandhi Government Arts College in Mahe was not admitting students from other states, notwithstanding an order passed by Directorate of Higher and Technical Education, Puducherry. So, in 2008-09, only 136 of the total of 285 seats were filled up.
 
The Joint Secretary to government (education), in the counter, said students from other states were also admitted and that 10 per cent of seats are reserved for students from Kerala. He also said the Directorate had directed colleges to review courses from 2008-09, even as the government was in talks  with Pondicherry University to introduce new courses.
 
The judges said it "appears" that the government is holding discussions with the Kerala government to make reciprocal arrangements for sharing seats in colleges in that state.
 
"If students of other states are given admission, in addition to 10 per cent reservation being given to students of Kerala, it will create serious problems in future," they said.

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