Union Of India & Ors vs M. Selvakumar & Anr on 24 January, 2017
16.It is the policy of the Government to give special reservation as approved
by the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Union of India v. M.Selvakumar
reported in (2017) 3 SCC 504. The policy as spelled out in G.O.Ms.No.1142,
Health and Family Welfare Department, dated 30.06.1979 gives equal preference
to the children of ex/deceased/serving defence service personnel by providing two
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seats for each category in the year 1979. The aforesaid policy is very reasonable
and fair giving equal opportunity to students belonging to all the three categories,
however the reservation for the children of serving personnel has been deleted
through G.O.(2D).No.23, Health and Family Welfare (MCA-1) Department, dated
28.05.2004 and the special reservation is confined only to Physically
Handicapped, Eminent Sports persons, Children of Freedom Fighters and Children
of Ex-servicemen. Further, vide G.O.(Ms).No.16, Health and Family Welfare
(MCA-1) Department, dated 22.01.2015, the Government enhanced the number of
MBBS seats earmarked for the children of ex-service personnel from 2 to 5 seats
from the year 2015-16 and again the same has been enhanced to 11 seats through
G.O.(D).No.977, Health and Family Welfare (MCA-1) Department, dated
01.06.2018 from the year 2018-19 which is impugned before this Court. When the
total number of seats were in 100's during the year 1979, 6 seats were given to the
children of ex-service personnel, whereas every year, new medical colleges are
being established in Tamil Nadu and at present, Tamil Nadu has about 26 medical
colleges having 3650 seats in Government medical colleges and 1147 Government
quota seats in private medical colleges, totalling 4797 medical seats, out of which
15% is reserved for Central Government quota and the balance is left to the State
quota. Therefore, 11 seats available for the children of defence personnel are
inadequate and the same is required to be increased as has been done by other
States namely, Karnataka, Telangana, Punjab, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
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