Supreme Courts Notice to Tamil Nadu on the petition that challenged 69% quota in the state

In a petition filed against 69 per cent quota in educational and employment institutions of Tamil Nadu by ten meritorious students, Supreme Court of India issued a notice on 10 September 2012 as the granted quota exceeds the limits decided by the judgement issued by Mandal Commission.

After hearing from the senior council Rakesh Diwedi, the notice was issued by the bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra seeking clarification and response from the state for directing the ways to provide admission to the petitioners in the running session of the Medical Colleges, by increasing the number of seats as it has been doing for past sixteen years.

The petitioners, Ms. Gayathri and nine others scored a high marks that ranges in between 198.50/200 to 198/200, but they were barred from being admitted in any of the medical institutions of the state because of the 69 percent quota provision.


As per the petitioners, the Supreme Court directed the backward class commission in 2010 to measure the justifiability of the 69 percent quota with the objective criteria report. The body filed a report to the state government on 8 July 2011, without any objective criteria just by confirming the 69 percent reservation on basis of Amba Shankar Commission Report made in 1985, without taking any objective criteria related to the terms of Nagaraja case that does not permits the power to exceed the restriction beyond 50 percent reservation.