HC poser to Centre, Anna varsity on admission to two biotech courses

Justice B. Pugalendhi of the Madras High Court on Wednesday expressed strong displeasure to the Centre and Anna University over repeated problems created in following the reservation policy for admissions to the M.Tech (Biotechnology) and M.Tech (Computational Biology) courses offered by the university but sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology under the Union Ministry of Science and Technology. When Advocate General Vijay Narayan, assisted by Special Government Pleader E. Manoharan, complained about the reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) having been applied for admissions to the two courses this year in violation of the State government’s policy against implementing such quota, the judge asked the counsel for the Centre as well as Anna University: “Why are you creating such confusions?”