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Admission To MBBS For ST Students May Become Easy, Candidate Could Be Admtt Based On His Good Score
By Dikshit Dass, Section News
Admission to medical or dental colleges may get easier for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates. On Monday the Supreme Court asked the Centre to respond by Friday whether a ST candidate could be admitted based on his good score. Aspiring ST students have to now qualify with a minimum of 40 per cent marks in the entrance test.
Five ST candidates along with two NGOs had filed petitioned in the Supreme Court that meritorious students from underprivileged socio-economic ground failed to qualify in the entrance tests since they could not afford to pay for specialised coaching classes. After notices were issued on the petition in the first week of September, the Centre represented by Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium informed the Court that the Government was aware of the issue. The Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan cited the case of NRI candidates who enter through a prescribed quota without writing the entrance examination and asked Subramanium to consider a relief on similar lines to be made available to ST candidates as well. "NRIs are allowed straight through quota. You (Centre) fix it. Those who are eligible can be considered. We are just doing this that the students in the tribal areas may come up," the Bench added. Click On "Full Story" For More...
The Bench was drawn to the fact that only two out of 51 seats allocated to STs in the current year medical/dental admissions were filled. The remaining seats either remained vacant or went to the general category. The bench argued that instead of pressing for a 40 per cent cut-off in the entrance test, admissions under ST category could be made purely against their performance in Class 12. "It is not a problem if you (Centre) increase the cut-off in the qualifying examination to even 70 per cent," it said.
Substantiating its concerns, the Bench pointed out, "If a tribal girl gets admission, it will be a great service to the village (to which she belongs)." The CJI agreed with the concern of the petitioners that those who could afford coaching classes were able to secure good marks. Citing the example of his home State Kerala, to which even the petitioners belonged, he said, "Especially in Kerala entrance examinations have become highly competitive." The petition filed through advocate Malini Poduval alleged that the 40 per cent stipulation was arbitrary. The clause under challenge is contained in Regulations on Graduate Medical Examination 1997 reproduced in the Prospectus for Admission to Professional Degree Courses 2008 requiring SC/ST to secure a minimum of 40 per cent marks in the Medical/Dental Entrance Examination. The petition cited a list of ST students who secured 90 per cent marks in the qualifying examination but ranked below 10,000 in the entrance examination to highlight the recurring problem. The five candidates suggested they could be accommodated on the lines of the concession granted to children of terror-attack victims who are exempted from appearing in the entrance examination. Alternatively, the minimum cut-off rule could be replaced with a purely merit criteria based on rank obtained, they added Source: The Pioneer 23/Sep/2008
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