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Supreme Court restores sports quota in medical admissions
A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dipak Mishra and Justice Nagappan here on Thursday restored the sports quota in the admissions to medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh.
New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dipak Mishra and Justice Nagappan here on Thursday restored the sports quota in the admissions to medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh.
The order came following a hearing into the petition challenging the scrapping of the sports quota in the medical admissions in AP by High Court of Judicature, Hyderabad.
The petitioners were Chandragiri Preeti Raj and Guntupalli Tanmaiyee. Representing the petitioners, Counsel V V Giri argued against the irrationality in the order that set aside the order.
He said there could have been some black sheep always but scrapping the very quota was unfair. Sportspersons were unfairly being denied the facility, he argued.
The bench concurred with the argument and then restored the quota to sportspersons. The High Court, in fact, had called upon the State governments across India to consider dissolving the sports quota for admission in educational institutes, saying it provided a back-door entry to students who were not meritorious.
The quota did not have constitutional sanction either, it added hearing into the case last month.In an order dated August 8, the HC also criticised the Andhra Pradesh government for including "insignificant" games under the sports quota.
"It is sad to note that except video games, all other games that one could conceive of have been brought within the sports quota to enable persons who cannot excel in studies to gain admission into medical courses through the back-door," a bench of Justice Ramasubramanian and Justice Anis said.
The court was dismissing a petition filed by a student challenging NTR University of Health Sciences' decision to not consider her for an MBBS seat under the sports quota.
The government had included six new games: tennikoit, power lifting, netball, throwball, sepak takraw (kick volleyball) and boxing.
The bench said sports quotas were "inventions made for the purpose of diluting the constitutional guarantees granted to SCs, STs and BCs," adding that they were also harming sports.
"Ultimately, persons who gain admission into medical courses under this quota lose their flavour for sports..," the bench said.
