HC bar on sanctioning more Plus Two courses

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JULY 4. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has ordered that no further orders on granting Plus Two courses to any schools be passed by the State Government.

The Bench comprising the Chief Justice, Mr. A.V. Savant, and Mr. Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan today recorded an undertaking by the Advocate General that the Government would not pass any further orders until the court permitted it to do so.

When a new writ challenging the allotment of Plus Two courses in aided and Government schools came up before it today, the Bench said that since it was hearing the issue, the Government should not pass further orders at this stage. The petition was filed by the manager of schools under the management of St. George Jacobite Syrian Church, Irumpanam, Ernakulam.

The Bench, however, made it clear that the order would not preclude the Government from implementing any order passed by it or the Supreme Court.

Stays community quota admission: In a separate case, a single judge of the court today stayed admission to the Plus Two seats reserved for candidates belonging to the communities which ran the respective aided schools.

Mr. Justice C.S. Rajan issued the interim order on a writ filed by the Akhila Kerala Dheevara Sabha. According to the Sabha, the reservation quota in aided schools had crossed the 50 per cent mark set by the Supreme Court.

While the management quota had been fixed at 20 per cent, 20 per cent of the seats would be earmarked for students of the respective communities to which the school belonged. The seats set part for the Scheduled Castes and Tribes were 12 per cent and 8 per cent respectively. Thus, the quota seats would come to 60 per cent and only 40 per cent of the seats went to the general category. This was violative of the Supreme Court rulings on reservation. Candidates of backward communities like the Dheevaras which did not have any Plus Two schools had to dependent on general seats.

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