ORDER

1. The Scheme framed by this Court in its judgment dated February 4, 1993 in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 607 of 1992{Unni Krishnan, J.P. v. State of A.P., (1993) 1 SCC 645} and connected matters is modified to the following extent only.

2. It shall be open to the professional college to admit Non-Resident Indian students to the extent of only five per cent of their total intake for a given year. By way of illustration if the permitted intake of a professional college is 100 for a given year, 50 seats out of it will be free seats and other 50 seats will be seats on payment. The five seats for Non-Resident Indian students shall be out of the 50 payment seats. The Non-Resident Indian students shall be admitted on the basis of merit. But in view of the different backgrounds they come from it is for the management of the college concerned to judge the merit of these candidates, having regard to the relevant factors. The fees payable by such students shall be as may be prescribed by the Committee referred to in clause (6) of the Scheme.

3. The Non-Resident Indian students admitted against these 5 seats need not however take the entrance examination, if any prescribed for admission to th