CHENNAI: A single judge of the Madras high court on Thursday said the Supreme Court, which had laid down a strict schedule for MBBS admissions, allowed high courts to breach it several times. As a result, no one knows where people and courts stand vis-a-vis admission schedules for medical education, Justice V Ramasubramanian said on Wednesday.
"It appears that the Supreme Court repeatedly fixed time schedules and warned statutory authorities not to violate the time schedule. But, quite a few orders passed by various courts beyond the time schedule were also upheld by the Supreme Court. Therefore, no one knows what the law is and where we stand. Our education in law appears to be inadequate to understand the law of education," he said.
The matter concerns 84 vacant MBBS seats in two private unaided medical institutions - 32 seats in Chennai Medical College & Research Centre in Trichy and 52 seats in Tagore Medical College & Hospital in Chennai. A batch of 28 students, who had earlier turned down MBBS seats in other private medical colleges owing to high fees, approached the HC saying they should have been considered for admission in these colleges.
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