HC stays TN medical varsity order

Updated on: Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Madras HC stayed an order of Tamil Nadu MGR Medical varsity that first year MBBS students have to secure minimum 50 marks in each of the two papers in a given subject to be eligible to attend second year classes.

Admitting a batch of petitions from students, the Madurai bench comprising Justice T Raja also directed the varsity to allow the students to attend the second year classes if they had got an aggregate of 50 per cent in the two papers of each subject.

The University in its recent order has stipulated that first year students in medical, dental, Indian medicine and homoeopathy have to secure minimum 50 in each of the two papers in a given subject and those who failed to meet the criteria would not be promoted to the second year.

One of the petitioners T Poorna Choundari submitted that she had scored 59 in Physiology-I paper and 42 in the second paper. Her aggregate mark was 101 out of 200 which works out to 50 per cent.

If the Medical Council of India regulations were followed, she stood pass. But after the new order of the University, she was declared fail. The order was arbitrary and violative of regulations of the MCI, she contended.

The MCI regulation provided that the students should get 50 per cent in aggregate. Hence the order of the MGR Medical University should be declared illegal and those who had scored 50 per cent aggregate in a subject should be allowed to pursue the second year course, the petitioner argued.

HC stays TN medical varsity order

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