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Here also reservation based on residence requirement of not less than ten years was held to be non-discriminatory though it denied equality of opportunity for admission to the medical colleges in the State to all those who did not satisfy this residence requirement. The Court took the view that the object of the State Government in making such reservation based on residence requirement of not less than ten years was to "impart medical education to the best talent available out of the class of persons who are likely, so far as it can reasonably be foreseen, to serve as doctors, the inhabitants of the State". The principle of selection based on merit across the board was thus allowed to be modified by the claim of State interest in providing broad based medical aid to the people of the State" and reservation based on residence requirement of not less than ten years was upheld as a valid reservation. We find an choice of the same reasoning in the following words from the judgment of Dua, J. in D.N. Chanchala v. State of Mysore.