States »SoutPosted at: Aug 4 2021 3:07PM

TN to provide 7.5% reservation for govt students in prof courses

Chennai, Aug 4 (UNI) The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday decided

to provide 7.5 per cent reservation for government school students in other

professional/Technical courses as has been done in medical admissions.

A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the State Cabinet

chaired by Chief Minister M K Stalin at the State Secretariat here.

It was also decided in the meeting that a Bill to implement the 7.5 per

cent reservation for government students in other professional courses

would be tabled in the budget session beginning on August 13.

This will be in line with the 7.5 per cent horizontal reservation being given

for government students in medical admissions as per the recommendations

of the Justice Murugesan Commission.

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