Tamil Nadu Governor Gives Assent to Bill on 7.5% Medical Reservation

Tamil Nadu Governor recently granted assent to the ‘Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to the students of Government Schools Bill, 2020’.

Highlights of the Act

  • The new law will provide a 7.5% horizontal quota for students who have studied from Classes 6 to 12 in state government schools and qualified in NEET for admissions to undergraduate medical courses.
  • The horizontal reservation shall be provided in each category of vertical reservation followed in Tamil Nadu within 69% reservation from the academic year 2020-21.
  • Article 15 [5] of the Constitution specifically provides ....
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