‘No admission for students from other states’

MUMBAI: The state government on Wednesday informed the Bombay high court that it cannot allow students from outside Maharashtra to be admitted to private unaided

MUMBAI: The state government on Wednesday informed the Bombay high court that it cannot allow students from outside Maharashtra to be admitted to private unaided medical and dental colleges, in view of absence of reciprocal opportunity to Maharashtrian students seeking admission to medical colleges in other states.

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Last year,most states, including Maharashtra, enacted legislations making it compulsory for students to pass SSC and HSC exams from their home states and produce domicile certificates while seeking admission to medical and dental colleges, acting advocate general Rohit Deo informed the bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice MS Sonak.

“Our students are not allowed to take admission under All India Quota in other states,” Deo said.

Deo was responding to petitions challenging validity of certain provisions of the Maharashtra Unaided Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions and Fees) Act, 2015. A filed by Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Mandir Trust, which runs a dental college at Nashik, challenged the rule making domicile certificates mandatory for admission to these colleges.

Responding to the petitions, Deo said that since 1955, domicile has been the basis of admissions and the state is entitled to reserve 85% seats in private unaided medical and dental colleges for local students.

The court has now posted the matter for further hearing on Friday when the decision is likely to be taken.