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Linguistic Minority Medical Colleges Bound By NMC's 50% PG-Seat Sharing Rule, Ensures Implementation Of Reservation Policies: Madras HC

The Madras High Court has recently made it clear that linguistic minority self financing medical colleges are bound by the National Medical Council's 50% seat sharing rule. The court noted that though the specific seat sharing clause was not present in the 2023 Regulation, the new Regulation provided for extending reservation benefits for the deserving candidates. The court also noted …

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‘Linguistic minority colleges bound by NMC’s PG education reservation rule’: Madras HC

CHENNAI: The Madras HC has held that private linguistic minority medical colleges are bound by the provision of the Post-Graduate Medical Education Reservations, 2023 issued by the National Medical Commission and the agreements made with the government to reserve PG medical seats for the government quota as per the applicable laws of the state or union territory. The court dismissed …

Aligarh Muslim University minority status case: Supreme Court overrules 1967 verdict

An educational institution established by a minority community will not lose its identity once it is recognised through a statute, the Supreme Court declared on Friday in a 4:3 majority judgment by a seven-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chief Justice Chandrachud held that an institution established by a minority community was indeed a minority educational institution. …

The Tamil Nadu Telugu Community Organisations and Tamil Nadu Naidu United Federation have raised demands for establishing Linguistic Minorities Commission and legal action against Seeman, chief coordinator of Naam Tamilar Katchi, for alleged divisive remarks against linguistic minorities. The Telugu representatives accused the state of neglecting linguistic minorities, citing obstacles created by tahsildars in issuing Telugu linguistic minority certificates because …

S.98 Karnataka Education Act Applicable To Unaided Educational Institutions Run By Linguistic Minority Bodies: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that Section 98 of the Karnataka Education Act, which pertains to the Retrenchment of Employees, is applicable to unaided educational institutions run by the linguistic minority institution. The hospital relied on TMA Pai Foundation vs. State of Karnataka 8 SCC 481 to argue that Section 98 is not applicable to the unaided educational institution …

Article 30 | Minority Aided Institutions Free To Appoint Qualified Principal From Minority Community, Courts Can't Interfere: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court today observed that once the management of a Minority Educational Institution makes a "conscious choice" of appointing a qualified person from the "Minority community" to lead the said institution either as a Vice Principal or Principal, then the Court cannot go into merits of such a choice or rationality or propriety of the process of choice. …

Assam CM for district-wise definition of minority

GUWAHATI: A community’s minority status should be designated based on its representation in a state or district’s total population, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Wednesday, adding that the decision should be based on the existing local reality. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said a community’s minority status should be designated based on its representation in a state …

Karnataka High Court Quashes Seat Matrix Of Telugu Linguistic Minority In A Medical College

The Karnataka High Court has quashed the revised seat matrix issued on January 31, for postgraduate and undergraduate courses in medicine for the academic year 2021-22, by which only Telugu Linguistic minority students residing in Hyderabad-Karnataka region are allowed to apply in a Linguistic minority institution located in that region. Case Background: The college had approached the court questioning the …

Plea In SC Seeks Identification of Minorities At 'State Level'; Challenges S. 2(f) Of National Commission for Minority Education Institution Act [Read Petition]

BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction upon the Central Government to lay down guidelines for identification of minorities "at State level", in spirit of its verdict in the TMA Pai case. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsee, as minorities "at national level", thus giving them the right to establish & administer minority educational …