The Madras High Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of a State law passed in October 2020 to provide 7.5% horizontal reservation to students who pass out of government schools and clear the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET), in medical admissions.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy ruled so while dealing with a batch of cases challenging the constitutional validity of the law passed during the AIADMK regime and backed strongly by the incumbent DMK government.
Since the law itself had been passed only for a period of five years subject to review thereafter, the judges directed the government to improve the standard of education imparted in the government schools on a par with that of private schools so that there was no unequal competition.
