ATKT students' admissions delayed further
Mumbai: The Bombay Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday has put a stay on the admissions of the Allowed to Keep Terms (ATKT) students for junior college after blowing the 90:10 quota favouring state board students. The order has come as a set back for more than one lakh students who were initially declared eligible for admissions this year despite of failing in a subject or two in board exams. The next date of hearing is August 27. The stay was announced in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a right-wing students' organization Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). The student wing alleged that the government had initiated the scheme in haste, without even making the required provisions both constitutionally and in terms of infrastructure. Shailendra Dalvi, Mumbai Secretary of ABVP, said, "The city colleges do not have the seats or proper infrastructure to accommodate these many students. The decisio