Madras High Court appoints former CJ to monitor the selection process of Marina beach vendors
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The Madras High Court on Tuesday appointed former Sikkim High Court Chief Justice Satish K. Agnihotri to select, by draw of lots, the 900 vendors to whom licences would be issued by the Greater Chennai Corporation for selling food items, souvenirs and other articles on modern push carts as part of the Marina Beach Beautification Project.
The Second Division Bench of Justices Vineet Kothari and M.S. Ramesh made the appointment after Additional Advocate General S.R. Rajagopal suggested the name of the retired judge and also stated that the latter had consented to supervise the draw of lots in order to ensure fairness and transparency in the process of selecting the vendors.
‘Move repugnant to objective sought to be achieved by NEET’
A private school student who could not get a government medical college seat, despite scoring 565 out of 720 marks in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), has challenged the constitutional validity of the 7.5% horizontal reservation for State government school students.
The petitioner, S. Pooja, 19, of Chennai, said the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act of 2020 promotes mediocrity by reserving medical seats for those who score less in NEET.
Claiming to be hailing from a lower middle-class family, Ms. Pooja said she had been trying to gain a government medical college seat since 2018, when she completed Class XII, scoring 1,113 out of 1,200 marks. But that year, she ended up scoring only 134 marks in NEET.