HC restricts approval for colleges with 'unqualified teachers'

Updated on: Monday, April 20, 2009

Madurai:Then Madurai Bench of Madras HC has suited PIL to restrain approval for new courses in affiliated colleges with 'unqualified teachers'

HighCourt issued notice to UGC,Union Ministry of Human Resources and Development,Higher Education Department and Registrar of Madurai Kamaraj University and Manonmanian Sundaranar University.

Justice S.K.Krishnan and Justice T.Raja directed the respondents to reply within two weeks. The petitioner T M Jeyaprakash, a retired professor, in his PIL said that some Government aided colleges and many self financing colleges had been appointing teachers who lacked qualification or eligibility as prescribed by the UGC.

'The UGC and other respondents could not remain mute spectators as academic pollution was being caused due to the appoint of unqualified lecturer' he said.

'They ought to have seen that appointment of unqualified persons to teaching posts in higher education would set off a chain reaction in many other fields' he said.

The petitioner said that he had sent a representation to the respondents on May 16, 2005 and later reminders were also sent. Though the state government forwarded two representations to the universities, no action was taken, he said.

He submitted that the Centre and state governments have powers to make regulations with regard to education as it was in the concurrent list of the seventh schedule of constitution.

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