Chennai: The Tamilnadu government has assured the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court that the government will not issue the prospectus for 2020-2021 medical admissions till Governor Banwarilal Purohit takes a decision on the Bill passed to provide horizontal reservation for government school students.

The submission was made by advocate general Vijay Narayan before a bench of Justices N Kirubakaran and B Pugalendhi during the course of hearing of two PILs filed by S Ramakrishnan and V Muthukumar seeking direction to implement the horizontal quota this year.

On hearing this, an anguished Justice N Kirubakaran became emotional over the plight of government school students in getting admitted to medical colleges.

He broke into tears over the plight of the government school students in getting admission for medical courses.

The bench orally observed that though the government school students take the composition of 41 per cent in the state, the students admission in medical courses had been only in single digit in the state during the past three years.

The judges observed that due to this reason, government school students were not applying for NEET.

The court had earlier observed that the Bill was passed by the Legislative Assembly unanimously on 15 September and sent to the Governor for his assent on the very same day.