Reservation for CBSE Students at Professional Colleges

Krithika S is a software engineer, and since last Saturday, arguments made during a court session over two decades ago have been echoing in her mind. That is because, on Saturday, Health Minister C Vijaya Bhaskar announced that 85% of admissions for MBBS/BDS were going to be internally reserved this year.

She received the details of the announcement on her daughter’s school WhatsApp. The order passed in 1992 had set reservations into professional colleges for students of CBSE Board at only 2%, which would have been a death blow for Krithika’s engineering dream. On Saturday, her daughter was devastated when the news broke on TV, but Krithika consoled her with the assurance that the government’s decision would definitely be struck down by the Courts, as had happened in 1992.

Due to CBSE pushing up its scores during moderation of results in 1992, the state had declared that it would be reserving 98% of seats at professional colleges for State Board students. The government had felt that majority of the seats would otherwise be taken up by only CBSE students, as XIIth exam results accounted for 50% of the total scoreboard at the colleges.

The Court had removed the reservations and passed a ruling that the State colleges should only consider those marks that were scored in the entrance exams.

Krithika and a group of other parents looked into legal remedies on the government’s decision, as it was discriminatory against CBSE students, and did not consider merit. Legal experts have also said that the order will not stand the test in court.

The High Court Judge of Madras, Judge K Chandru, said that the order passed by the government was assuming that students from CBSE Board would be scoring higher marks than State Students and was making an exemption of Article 14 that advocates equality before the law.

Reservation under the Indian Constitution can only be made vertically, i.e. for social uplifting, or horizontally, i.e. for women, grandchildren of freedom fighters or differently abled persons. Judge Chandru said that the Supreme Court has struck down all other reservations that work against merit.

The order, however, comes as a form of justice for thousands of State students. Students who have qualified for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test comprise mostly of students from the State Board, with CBSE candidates being less than 10%.

A school teacher from a State Board school, S Manikandan said that it was unfair that the CBSE Board which has its own set of textbooks sets the question paper for the whole country, and cited that more than 50% of the questions in this year’s Biology paper had not been from the State textbooks.

There are more severe issues in Tamil Nadu currently. Out of the 2900 medical seats at its 22 state-run medical colleges, 434 seats are reserved for the All India quota.  J Radhakrishnan, the State Health Secretary said that the Tamil Nadu Medical colleges function as tertiary care systems for making healthcare easier and faster and that none of the other states have as many government medical colleges.

Health Minister Vijaya Bhaskar said that the State government is left without any return on investment because they offer subsidized education for the benefit of meritorious students of the State Board, in contrast with self-financing colleges which have management quota.

Special incentives such as additional PG marks and super-specialty admissions are awarded to students who serve in government-run hospitals in rural and backward areas post their graduation from state-run colleges. Baskar said that this was a good way to ensure doctors signing up for rural areas. The reservations policy was for health security and universal health coverage.

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