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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Chennai: Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu have reason to cheer as the state government has decided to permit them to enrol in BE/BTech courses through the single window counselling from this year.
“The GO issued by higher education principal secretary K Ganesan has been communicated to the authorities of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010),” a government official said.
It is learnt that more than a dozen Sri Lankan Tamil refugee students, who passed Plus Two, have applied for TNEA 2010. They will be issued call letters and permitted to attend the counselling according to the general merit list. Refugee students, who have not applied for TNEA 2010 till now, could be allowed to participate in the supplementary counselling to be conducted at a later date.
There have been several representations from the Tamil refugee community and civil society urging the government to allow these students to join engineering colleges like their Tamil counterparts in India. The Centre had approved five self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu to admit refugee students under the management quota. However, most refugees were unable to afford the fee.
According to SC Chandrahasan of the Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation (OfERR), Tamil refugees were accommodated in arts and science and professional colleges in India since 1984. These students were admitted over and above the sanctioned students’ strength in these institutions.
“However, this process was interrupted after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Chief minister M Karunanidhi restored it in 1996 and it went on till 2002. In 2003, the Madras HC struck down a quota created for Indian students in addition to the reservation that was already in vogue. This had an adverse effect on refugee students too,” Chandrahasan said.
Later, Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy had moved court saying that the quota for the Tamil refugees was granted on humanitarian grounds after which the court said there was no bar on extending concessions to refugees. Subsequently, in arts and science colleges, refugee students were allowed to be admitted.
Engineering course entry cleared for Lankan refugees
Chennai: Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu have reason to cheer as the state government has decided to permit them to enrol in BE/BTech courses through the single window counselling from this year.
“The GO issued by higher education principal secretary K Ganesan has been communicated to the authorities of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010),” a government official said.
There have been several representations from the Tamil refugee community and civil society urging the government to allow these students to join engineering colleges like their Tamil counterparts in India. The Centre had approved five self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu to admit refugee students under the management quota. However, most refugees were unable to afford the fee.
According to SC Chandrahasan of the Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation (OfERR), Tamil refugees were accommodated in arts and science and professional colleges in India since 1984. These students were admitted over and above the sanctioned students’ strength in these institutions.
“However, this process was interrupted after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Chief minister M Karunanidhi restored it in 1996 and it went on till 2002. In 2003, the Madras HC struck down a quota created for Indian students in addition to the reservation that was already in vogue. This had an adverse effect on refugee students too,” Chandrahasan said.
Later, Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy had moved court saying that the quota for the Tamil refugees was granted on humanitarian grounds after which the court said there was no bar on extending concessions to refugees. Subsequently, in arts and science colleges, refugee students were allowed to be admitted.
Courtesy: Times of India
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