CHENNAI: The Justice S.S. Subramani Committee on Wednesday threatened to cancel the common entrance test, conducted by the Tamil Nadu Private Professional Colleges Association-Health Sciences (TNPPCA-HS), for filling management quota seats in unaided medical and para-medical colleges.

It warned students against joining these colleges under the management quota, saying the admissions were liable to be cancelled as they had been given without considering inter-se merit. The association had not released the CET merit list, Mr. Justice Subramani said here. According to the Supreme Court directive, all admissions have to be completed by September 30.

"Yesterday we issued notice to the Association asking it to show cause why their CET should not be cancelled and why candidates should not be selected from the State Government's merit list. The list has not been released. We see no arrangement made for issuing applications, receiving them, preparing a rank list and admitting candidates. It is already September 28 and even if the merit list is released, we don't see how they are going to do all this in two days," he told newspersons.

"We are preparing to cancel the examinations and intimating the Directorate of Medical Education to admit candidates based on the Government's merit list," Mr. Justice Subramani said. "We are informing the public through a notification so that students should not be misguided into getting admission on the basis of a make-believe merit list."

He said the association on September 22 presented to the committee a mark list of the CET and promised to give the merit list the next day.

Since then, the Permanent Committee repeatedly tried to contact the association but got no response.

Mr. Justice Subramani said notice had been served on PSG Medical College, Coimbatore, after complaints from candidates that the college was not issuing applications. "Instead they are choosing candidates to give applications."

On Wednesday, the college replied that it was following the Supreme Court's directive and other norms.

He wondered how this was possible without a merit list. The college could well say it had received only a given number of applications and could prepare it own inter-se merit list, he added.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail