Vacant seats no criteria for admission: High Court

Chennai | Saturday | 18th August, 2018

Summary:

Accommodating unqualified students in vacant seats would set a bad precedent and lead to anarchy in the field of education, it said. more-inStudents who do not qualify for admission to a particular course cannot be accommodated in such a course even if many seats are lying vacant, the Madras High Court has ruled. “Merely because the seats are vacant does not mean that the candidate has got to be accommodated. The candidate would have to be necessarily considered only under the ‘other caste’ category when she sought admission to a college here. However, on such consideration, she ought to have scored above the cut-off mark of 71.05% required to gain admission to Master of Science (Zoology) course under the OC category..