The fate of the controversial 90:10 reservation formula for junior college seats is set to be decided on today at the Bombay High Court.
The fate of the controversial 90:10 reservation formula for junior college seats is set to be decided on today at the Bombay High Court.
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Apparently the HC, hearing a bunch of petitions against the formula, on June 24 adjourned the case till June 29 and directed junior colleges in the state not to finalise admission to standard XI till June 30.
The court also directed the government to furnish the records pertaining to its decision to reserve 90 per cent of the available seats for state board students.
While though SSC results were declared on Friday. Court said admission forms could be accepted from Thursday but made it clear that admission could be finalised only after June 29 when it will pronounce the final judgment on the petitions.
The government justified the decision, with joint secretary (school education) Anil Bhattalwar filing an affidavit that students passing from the SSC (state board) and those passing from other boards form two different, unequal groups. "To give equal opportunity to seek admission to two unequal groups will result in gross discrimination," the affidavit says.
It says there are 6,03,144 SSC candidates against 15,608 from other boards. It adds that the formula "does not tantamount to discrimination" and called it a "legitimate distinction that is sought to be made between two classes of students." It says students of other boards corner most seats in premier institutes when the benefit should have gone to state board students.
The counsel for various petitioners urged that admission should be made subject to the outcome of the petitions.
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