AIADMK seeks law for 50 percent quota for government-sponsored students in private medical colleges

Puducherry: The AIADMK in Puducherry urged the territorial government to immediately convene a special Assembly session and bring in a legislation to ensure 50 per cent quota for government-sponsored students in the private medical colleges in the Union Territory.

AIADMK legislature wing leader A Anbalagan told reporters here that presently the private medical colleges including deemed to be universities were denying seats at 50 per cent of quota for the local students.

"Seat sharing is done according to whims and fancies of the management and most of the time the local students were not getting admission. Seats are sold away for exorbitant prices to students from distant States," he alleged There should be a law to curb this unjust and unfair practice on the part of the management," he said.

He also sought the intervention of Lt Governor Kiran Bedi to do justice to the students.