SC rejects the plea seeking 50% OBC quota in in Tamil Nadu medical colleges

The Supreme Court rejected the plea of students of Tamil Nadu as well as the ruling party AIADMK seeking 50 per cent reservation under OBC quota in NEET medical seats in the state in undergraduate, postgraduate and dental courses for the academic session 2020-2021.

A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi dismissed the interim prayer made in the pleas for implementation of 50 per cent quota for



the current academic year. The Tamil Nadu government had challenged the judgement of Madras High Court where OBC reservation under All India Quota (AIQ) was scrapped in non-central institutes.

The Madras High Court in July had cleared the decks on OBC reservation under All India Quota (AIQ) medical seats in non-central institutions and the ruling party then gave the Centre three months’ time to take a decision on the percentage.