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Tamil
Nadu rejects engineering admission norms
Wednesday May 04, 2011 10:22:04 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu
government, which has refused to abide by the admission norms set
by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for
engineering courses, has decided to continue its own norms
formulated last year.
The AICTE circular would make social justice philosophy
meaningless, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Wednesday said in a
statement.
He said the state government, in order to make available
engineering course to all sections of the student community, had
laid down the minimum qualifying marks as 50 percent for general
category, 45 percent for backward classes, 40 percent for most
backward classes and 35 percent for the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes.
A recent AICTE circular had laid down minimum eligibility for
general category students at 50 percent and 45 percent for all
other categories.
Karunanidhi said following the AICTE norms would exclude students
from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tibes, backward classes and
students from rural areas.
He also urged the AICTE to revoke its circular in the larger
interests of the student community without citing that the
education is under concurrent list of the Indian constitution..
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