CET legislation a retrograde step says Moily

Bangalore, May 16: Describing the Karnataka Common Entrance Test legislation as a 'retrogative step,' former Karnataka Chief Minister Veerappa Moily today said it is an assault on the Karnataka students and unless an ordinance is promulgated to rectify the defects the students will suffer irreparable loss and anarchy will let loose in the field of professional education.

Talking to newsmen here he said students would become total victims of vagaries of the new law.

The Act is not in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Constitutional amendment, he said adding that the JD (S)-BJP coalitition government had not applied the mind to rectify the problems.

He said that it was quite startling that the state government in the last session on the last day of Assembly brought the Bill and passed it without any discussion.

Stating that the state had not seen such an outragious Act so far, he said that the continuity of promoting social justice by this progressive state among all sections of society, had been ended with the passing of such a Bill.

He also criticised the non-inclusion of PUC marks in the CET ranking.

UNI