Supreme Court orders CEE to submit number of vacant seats

Updated on: Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Supreme Court has asked the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) to inform about the total number of vacant seats that are yet to be filled in the management quota in eleven unaided medical colleges in the state. This was decided by a bench comprising Justices B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar.

The Supreme Court had, earlier, directed Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association (KPMCMA) to admit students from the rank lists prepared by CEE based on the Common Entrance Test (CET) this year, to 35 percent of the seats under the management quota in its colleges.

The Bench had also refused to stay a Kerala High Court verdict that had declared an entrance test conducted by the KPMCMA on May 30 void and inoperative. The test had been conducted for admission to the management seats in eleven unaided colleges.

Attorney General for the State, G.E. Vahanvati said that the proposal by the CEE to conduct a separate CET for the remainder of the seats was acceptable to the states. Subramaniam had suggested a CET to be conducted for the vacant seats, but his claims were disputed by senior counsel V. Giri who said that the number of seats that were left vacant was higher than the number stated in court.

The SC Bench had then asked the CEE to file an affidavit that included the total number of seats that were to be filled and how the vacancies will be filled.

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