Navodayites plea rejected.

Navodayites plea rejected.

Arun Kumar of Sulakpet in Sindhanur of Raichur district and two other students had moved the court against the denial of seats under the rural quota category.

Arun said he had studied in Sindhanur, (a rural area) from 1st standard to 5th standard, he later went to Navodaya Vidyalaya at Mudgal, Raichur district. he claimed he was eligible for benefit under the rural quota.  After passing the 12th standard from the Navodaya Vidyalaya, he appeared for the CET in 2006 and secured the 7,726th rank in medicine and 11,610 rank in engineering.

 

He said that though he was eligible for benefit under rural quota, the CET Cell refused to entertain such an application when he went for counselling on July 5, 2006 for medical seats. He was, however, given a seat under the Scheduled Caste (general) category in medicine.

He said he wanted to appear for counselling for engineering seats which commences from Saturday.