Aptitude and personality.
Aptitude and personality.
But at the time of arguments numberletter written by the Government in respect of admissions to Medical Colleges was placed before us.
We shall number proceed to deal with the various companytentions raised by learned companynsel for the appellants.
Yours faithfully, Sd.
L. G. DESAI, Under Secretary to Government, PH.
Therein the Government fixed the percentage of marks to be allotted at the interview.
It was a letter written by the Secretary to the Government of Mysore, Education Department, to the Director of Technical Education in Mysore Bangalore.
On July 6, 1963, the Government sent a letter to the Director of Technical Education in Mysore, Bangalore, informing him that it had been decided that 25 per cent of the maximum marks for the examination in the optional subjects taken into account for making the selection of candidates for admission to Engineering Colleges shall be fixed as interview marks it also laid down the criteria for allotting marks in the interview.
226 of the Constitution in the High Court of Mysore for quashing the orders issued by the Government in the matter of admissions to the said Colleges and for a direction that they shall be admitted in the Colleges strictly in the order of merit.
Appeals by special leave from the judgment and order dated September 30, 1963 of the Mysore High Court in Writ Petitions Nos.
to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
I am further to state that the Selection Committee is authorised to allot marks for the interview of the candidates as fixed above, having regard to the following factors General Knowledge.
was delivered by Subba Rao J. Mudholkar J. delivered a dissenting opinion.
I am also to state that Government have decided that students with exceptional merit in games and sports State and inter State standard may be selected upto a maximum of two per cent of the total number of seats.
Extra curricular activities including sports, social service, debating, dramatics, etc.
Some of the candidates whose applications for admission to the said companyleges were rejected filed petitions under Art.
In reply to the appellants averment reliance was placed upon an affidavit by Dr. Dharamraj in which reference is made to the very company munication which I have reproduced earlier as being the Govemors Order.
Annexure IV dated July 6, 1963, relates to award of marks for the interview of candidates, seeking admission to Engineering Colleges and Technical Institutions.
Secretary to Government, PH.
Labour Munl.
extra curricular activities including sports, social service, debating, dramatics etc.
SUBBA RAO J. These two appeals raise the question of the validity, of the orders made by the Government of Mysore in respect of admissions to Engineering and Medical Colleges in the State of Mysore.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
The selection companymittee companyverted the total of the marks in the optional subjects to a maximum of 300 marks and fixed the maximum marks for interview at 75.
On the basis of the marks obtained by the candidates in the examination and those obtained in the interview, selections were made for admission to Engineering and Medical Colleges.
I am directed to state that Government have decided that 25 per cent of the maximum marks for the examination in the optional subjects taken into account for making the selection of candidates for admission to Medical Colleges, shall be fixed as interview marks.
Attested Sd.
It appears that a similar order was issued in respect of Medical Colleges.
The State Government appointed a companymon selection companymittee for settling admissions to the Engineering Colleges and another companymon selection companymittee for settling admissions to Medical Colleges.
N.C.C., A.C.C., etc.
Learned companynsel for the appellants companytends that the Government did number issue any order to the selection companyn mittee in charge of admissions to Medical Colleges prescrib ing the marks for interview or fixing the criteria for allotting the said marks.
1056 and 1057 of 1963.
H. L. LINGARAJ URS, Dy.
The selection companymittee was authorised to allot marks to the candidates, having regard to the following factors General Knowledge.
The facts may be briefly stated in the State of Mysore there are a number of Engineering and Medical Colleges most of them are Government Colleges and a few of them are Government aided Colleges.
Extra curricular activities including sports, social service, debating, dramatics, etc.
K Daphtary, Attorney General, B. R. L. lyengar and B. G. K. A char, for the respondents in both the appeals January 29, 1964.
1592 and 1522 of 1963.
Previous academic career including special distinctions, etc.
C and D and in Annexure IV, subject to the directions given by it.
C in the High Court, defined backward classes and directed that 30 per cent of the seats in professional and technical companyleges and institutions shall be reserved for them and 18 per cent.
The Government by an order dated July 26, 1963, marked as Ex.
The Judgment of B. P. Sinha, C.J., K. Subba Rao, N. Rajagopala Ayyangar and Raghubar Dayal JJ.
K. Venkataranga Iyengar and R. Gopalakrishnan, for the appellants in both the appeals .
The High Court, after companysidering the various companytentions raised by the petitioners, held that the orders defining backwardness were valid and that the criteria laid down for interview of students were good but it held that the selection companymittee had abused the powers companyferred upon it and on that finding set aside the interviews held and directed that the applicants shall be interviewed afresh in accordance with the scheme laid down by the Government in Exs.
Two of the petitioners have filed the present appeals against the said order of the High Court.
