Chennai, October 30
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has assented to a Bill envisaging 7.5 per cent reservation to government school students who have cleared the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in admission to undergraduate medical courses.
A day after the state government took the executive route to implement the quota regime from the current 2020-21 academic year itself and issued a government order to facilitate it, the Raj Bhavan said "this is to inform the people of Tamil Nadu that the honourable Governor has given his assent to the Bill".
The Governor sought legal opinion from the Solicitor General of India (SGI) on September 26 and the opinion was received on October 29, the release said.
"As soon as the opinion was received, honourable Governor gave assent to the Bill," the statement said.
Chief Minister K Palaniswami said efforts were afoot to implement the reservation from the current year. DMK president MK Stalin claimed Purohit gave his assent to the quota Bill as he was left with no other choice and thanked him for his approval.
He said his party's protest and the hope expressed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court were behind Purohit's "change of heart". In a Twitter post, Stalin said the approval came after 45 days and when the time for medical counselling was nearing. Hearing a batch of public interest litigation petitions, a division bench had on Thursday hoped that the Governor would take a decision at the earliest. — PTI
Was passed by assembly on Sept 15
The Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Bill, 2020, was passed on September 15 by the Assembly and sent to Governor Banwarilal Purohit for approval.
OBC quota in Sainik Schools from 2021-22
New Delhi: Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar on Friday said 27 per cent seats in Sainik Schools will be reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) from the academic session 2021-22. The Sainik Schools Society, which works under the Ministry of Defence, manages 33 such residential schools in the country. Kumar said on Twitter, posting images of an October 13 circular sent to principals of all Sainik Schools across the country. pti
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