Chennai sources have stated that Madras High Court quashed a Tamilnadu government order reserving 85% of MBBS and BDS seats to state board students and only 15% for CBSE and other boards, holding that it amounted to discrimination among equals. Meanwhile when allowing petitions by some CBSE students challenging the June 22 state government order, Justice K Ravichandrababu held that the impugned reservation was poor from a legal standpoint and violated Act 14 of the Constitution.
According to sources the state government had defended the order, saying the policy of the state government was not in favor of NEET, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
More than 50% of the questions in the NEET
were based on the CBSE syllabus and hence there was an inequality in the
all-India exam, it had contended.
