Preamble

SEED TAMIL NADU or 7 SF En 0 GE gE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE CELTSEN TS) Er a EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 383] CHENNAI, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021 Aavani 15, Pilava, Thiruvalluvar Aandu—2052 Part IV—Section 2 Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 30th August 2021 and is hereby published for general information: — ACT No. 14 OF 2021.

An Act to provide for preference in admission to undergraduate professional courses in Universities, Government colleges and Private colleges for the students who studied in Government schools.

WHEREAS the Government received several representations from various sections of the society that enrolment of Government school students in professional courses related to Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary, Fisheries and Law has been low over the past several years with request to improve their representations;

AND WHEREAS a Commission comprising of senior officials under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Justice Thiru. D.Murugesan (retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi) was constituted to examine the issues related to socio-economic conditions of the students studying in Government schools, disadvantages suffered by such students, ifany, and their pastenrolmentin various categories of professional courses/ educationalinstitutions; and thatifthe said issues have led to their under representations, suggestremedial measures to improve the representation of State Government school student in the admission to professional courses such as Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary, Fisheries, Law, etc.;

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AND WHEREAS the Commission, based on the assessment and analysis made on the subject under reference, considering the poor socio-economic conditions of the parents of the Government school students, disadvantage suffered by such students and the meagre enrolment of such students in professional courses, apart from making very many suggestions to improve/uplift their standard of education, has recommended that not less than 10% of seats in Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary, Fisheries, Law and allied professional courses in Universities, Self-financing colleges and Government colleges may be set apart, to provide preference in admission to Government school students without affecting the rule of reservation in force in the State;

AND WHEREAS Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution permit reasonable classification on intelligible differentia and thereby permits different treatment to unequals;

AND WHEREAS the Government, after careful consideration of the recommendation of the said Commission, have decided to set apart seven and a half per cent. of seats in the admission to undergraduate professional courses on preferential basis to students of the State Government schools;

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

. 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Admission to Short title and . N N commencement Undergraduate professional courses on preferential basis to i students of Government schools Act, 2021.

1. (2) It shall come into force at once.