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India News: KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Friday quashed state government orders, sub-classifying minorities by providing merit-cummeans scholarship at 80% to M.
Govt. told to provide scholarship equally and as per population census
A 2015 Kerala government order allocating the merit-cum-means scholarship for minority communities to Muslims and Latin Catholic Christians and Converted Christians together in the 80:20 ratio was struck down by the Kerala High Court.
A Division Bench of the court consisting of Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly noted that the action of the State government in subclassifying the minorities and providing the scholarship at 80:20 ratio was legally unsustainable.
The court also directed the State government to pass requisite and appropriate orders for providing the scholarship to the members of the notified minority communities equally and in accordance with the latest population census available with the State Minority Commission.
HC quashes 2015 order that allotted 80% of minority scholarships to Muslims in Kerala
The petitioner argued that under the cover of minority rights, the state government is supporting a particular section. Though the Christian community raised a complaint, it was not attended to.
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KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday quashed the Kerala government s order sub-classifying the minorities by providing 80% of merit-cum-means scholarships to the Muslim community and 20 per cent to the Latin Catholic Christians and Converted Christians.
The court issued the order on the petition filed by Justine Pallivathukkal of Palakkad against the order of the government on May 8, 2015. The fixation of ratio is illegal as it was not based on the actual population of these minority religions, said the petitioner, arguing that under the cover of minority rights, the state government is supporting a particular section. Though the Christian c