JUDGMENT

Raju, J.-These appeals involve a challenge to the powers as well as the right of the State Government to provide for reservation of seats for admission to Post Graduate Medical Courses for in-service candidates and the reasonableness or otherwise of the extent upto which such reservations could be made. Before the learned Single Judge, challenge was made to the decision of the Government/University fixing 33% to be the qualifying marks for in-service candidates to render them eligible for admission to the Post-Graduate courses. The second ground of challenge was to the decision of the Government to increase the reservation of seats for admission into Post-Graduate courses for in-service candidates from 25% to 50% out of the remaining 75% of the seats after excluding 25% of the seats reserved for central quota.

2. The learned Single Judge by his order dated 22.2.1998 repelled the challenge based on the first ground and held that the State, which is authorized to regulate the admissions to Post-Graduate Courses of Medicine by prescribing minimum qualifying marks in the entrance examination therefor, is entitled, as in this case, to fix a minimum of 33% for the in-service c