EducationDMK-AIADMK alternation
Professional course admissions law and end of entrance tests
· Chennai
With common entrance tests abolished, a 2006 law reorganised professional course admissions and brought reservation to private colleges.
Admission to courses in medicine, engineering, dentistry, agriculture and architecture was simplified through Tamil Nadu's Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2006. Under it, reservation applied to 65 percent of seats in unaided private institutions run by non-minorities and to 50 percent in unaided minority institutions. The Karunanidhi government also scrapped common entrance examinations for professional courses, so that school results decided admissions. According to its supporters, the reform improved access for women, rural students and first-generation graduates.
