Take steps to get 50 pc seats from Pvt colleges: Narayansamy

Pondicherry, July 20 (UNI) AICC general secretary V Narayanasamy, MP, today urged the Pondicherry administration to take all steps to obtain 50 per cent seats from all the private medical and engineering colleges for the students selected through the centralised admission committee of the government.

In a release here today, Mr Narayansamy pointed out that the issue was amicably settled by the Tamil Nadu government and reitrated that the territorial administration should take over all the colleges which were reluctant to provide 50 per cent seats as government quota.

He demanded that the committees constituted under retired judges to monitor the entrance examinations conducted by the private professional colleges and to regulate the fee structure be dissolved and instead new committees be constituted.

Meanwhile, an all-party meeting here resolved to organise a bandh in Pondicherry to press the government to get more seats in the colleges.

According to a release from the CPI(M), the parties would organise street corner meetings on July 24 and 25 and if the government failed to take concrete steps even after that the bandh would be observed. The meeting insisted that the government should obtain 65 per cent seats from the colleges.

Representatives of the CPI, CPM, JD(S) and parents-students association, among others, participated in the meeting.

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