Medical seats: HC to decide validity of 7.5% quota for govt students today

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court will pronounce orders on Thursday on a batch of writ petitions challenging the state government’s legislature providing a 7.5 per cent horizontal reservation for students who are coming from the government schools and applying for medical admissions. After the marathon hearings, the first bench of Chief Justice MN Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy had reserved the orders on March 17. A battery of advocates including Advocate General R Shunmugasundaram for the government, AAG Amith Anand Tiwari for the Directorate of Medical Education, Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal for the state, Senior Counsel P Wilson for the higher education department argued that the 7.5% reservation is very essential to uplift the students who study in the state government schools. It is noted that CJ MN Bhandari had questioned the AG how reservations could be provided based on the educational institution.