FYJC admission - decision on 90:10 quota likely today
Verdict on 90:10 debate likely today - Three days after 12.78 lakh students in Maharashtra passed the State Secondary Certificate (SSC) examination, their hearts will once again be on the edge on Monday. That is when the Bombay high court is expected to decide the fate of the state’s controversial decision to reserve 90% seats for SSC students in junior college admissions from this academic year.
Close to 7,500 ICSE students and 16,359 CBSE students across the state would also be biting their nails, as a go-ahead for the state’s 90-10 formula would mean that their chances to “grab” seats, as the state education department said in its affidavit, in premier Mumbai colleges would stand highly reduced. In Mumbai alone, 2.63 lakh SSC students were declared passed.
The HC had last week fixed June 29 as the day for finally hearing and deciding the clutch of petitions against the June 18 pro-SSC government resolution. The legal team for the ICSE board, some ICSE school managements and parents of ICSE students met variously over the weekend to chalk out their strategy in court. On the other hand, the pro-government PTA United Forum and the Palak Sanghathna also held brainstorming sessions.
Those opposing the state will also rely on several Supreme Court judgments including the 2003 landmark verdict in the Saurav Chaudhary case where the court held as unconstitutional any reservation in education which goes against the golden rule of merit-cum-preference.
The state is relying on the proportional seat sharing formula as its justification and that the decision would undo the existing “imbalance” in FYJC admissions. It is relying on the minority view in last year’s verdict against its percentile system where the judge acknowledged that on account of the dissimilarity in exam patterns, SSC students suffer and lose out on seats. (source: TOI)
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