Pondy administration to bear tuition fees of govt school students joining medical colleges
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Puducherry (PTI): Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Thursday said the territorial administration would bear the full tuition fees payable by students from government schools joining the undergraduate medical courses in the Union Territory, during the current academic year.
Addressing reporters here, the CM noted that students who had completed their school education in government run institutions and cleared the NEET examination are eligible for the scheme.
Students from government schools would be admitted under 10 percent quota of horizontal reservation in undergraduate medical courses here.
He further said his government would ask the colleges not to insist students to pay the tuition fees as it would be borne by the administration.
Students joining professional courses in the Union Territory are selected through the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC).
Earlier this month, the Centre had approved the Puducherry government’s proposal to implement the quota.
Meanwhile, Puducherry AIADMK convenor A Anbalagan told media that his party has been persuading the government to introduce the 10 percent reservation for students from government schools in medical education.
He thanked Rangasamy for introduction of the quota.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
