Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea by two students from Vijayawada challenging the Telangana government’s abolition of 15% quota in GO MS No. 72. MBBS Convenor seats for AP students in new medical colleges of the state.
P Sai Sirilochana and p Chandra Sekhar filed the instant petition as lunch motion and urged the court to quash the GO after declaring it unconstitutional and contrary to the provisions of the AP Reorganization Act. according to his lawyer Thirumala RaoSuddenly after NEET-2023 was over and admission process started, GO was issued with malafide intention.
“The local and non-local ratio of 85:15 is prescribed and issued by Article 371-D presidential order Will continue for 10 years even after the bifurcation of the state and that is what the AP Reorganization Act says. It is illegal to stop it before the expiry of the period of 10 years, the petitioners said. The State has argued that this criterion was applicable only to existing colleges till the date of bifurcation.
For colleges established after June 2, 2014 – the day of bifurcation – the state is not bound to provide 15% quota for AP students. The state said that its GO 72 is about exactly this. Pointing out that the State amended the Telangana Medical and Dental College Admissions (Admission to MBBS and BDS Courses) Rules, 2014 and introduced full reservation for local people, the petitioners said that the orders placed by the Registrar, Telangana Kaloji Narayana Rao University Was referring to a resolution passed. Department of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) for decision. “This is in violation of the letter and spirit of the AP Reorganization Act, 2014 and adversely affects our rights and opportunities,” the petitioners said. HC posted the matter for Wednesday
P Sai Sirilochana and p Chandra Sekhar filed the instant petition as lunch motion and urged the court to quash the GO after declaring it unconstitutional and contrary to the provisions of the AP Reorganization Act. according to his lawyer Thirumala RaoSuddenly after NEET-2023 was over and admission process started, GO was issued with malafide intention.
“The local and non-local ratio of 85:15 is prescribed and issued by Article 371-D presidential order Will continue for 10 years even after the bifurcation of the state and that is what the AP Reorganization Act says. It is illegal to stop it before the expiry of the period of 10 years, the petitioners said. The State has argued that this criterion was applicable only to existing colleges till the date of bifurcation.
For colleges established after June 2, 2014 – the day of bifurcation – the state is not bound to provide 15% quota for AP students. The state said that its GO 72 is about exactly this. Pointing out that the State amended the Telangana Medical and Dental College Admissions (Admission to MBBS and BDS Courses) Rules, 2014 and introduced full reservation for local people, the petitioners said that the orders placed by the Registrar, Telangana Kaloji Narayana Rao University Was referring to a resolution passed. Department of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) for decision. “This is in violation of the letter and spirit of the AP Reorganization Act, 2014 and adversely affects our rights and opportunities,” the petitioners said. HC posted the matter for Wednesday