The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : 50% colleges failed to admit even one minority student

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50% colleges failed to admit even one minority student

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CHENNAI: Nearly 50 per cent of the unaided engineering colleges in the State, which have claimed minority status and consequential benefits, failed to admit even one student from the minority community in academic year 2006-07, the Madras High Court was informed on Friday.

When the writ appeal against a single judge order, upholding the validity of a Government directive on surrender of seats and mode of admission to the management quota came up for hearing before the First Bench on Friday, Advocate-General R. Viduthalai and Special Government Pleader (Education) M. Sekar submitted a list of colleges that did not admit even a single student belonging to the minority community.

According to the list, 32 out of the 76 colleges that had obtained the minority status had drawn a blank in respect of admission of minority students. Overall, out of the 15,090 seats, which comprised 50 per cent of the seats available under the management quota of minority institutions, only 3,306 were given to minority students in the last academic year.

The 76 colleges, with a combined intake of 30,179 students, managed to admit 24,364 candidates in 2006-07.

Interestingly, two colleges — the Measi Academy of Architecture and the St. Joseph’s College of Engineering in Chennai — admitted more than the sanctioned intake of students, according to the list.

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