Details of Affiliation of colleges to make public

Updated on: Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Madras High Court made a verdict for better accountability and responsibility in the education sector. Where instances of students suffering because of unrecognized course or being admitted in excess of the permitted intake are on the rite. It is declared to publish recognition and affiliation details of medical, engineering and other professional colleges and punish or award damages to students who are misled by unscrupulous managements into joining institutes that do not have statutory sanction to take students. According to the verdict there is no law to award compensation to students who lose money and time by first joining a college / course without recognition and then fight court in vain. Colleges overtake laws, joint like that, during admission procedures and then try to gain get sympathy before the court of law using affected students and parents as their protection.

St Jonh’s College of Nursing in Tamil Nadu approached court for regularization of students admitted in excess of the permitted intake. Justice K.K. Sasidaran dismissed this Writ petition said, cancellation of recognition, or denial of affiliation or reduction of intake ot students in professional colleges should not be a secret affair.

It is pointed out that there were no appropriate regularization to punish manageme3nts, involved in such serious irregularities, the judge acted the statutory bodies like MCI, AICTE and the nursing dental must consider to adopting to norms with necessary modification.

Before admission, every year for Medical, Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy, Teachers, Law and other course begin, the statutory bodies concerned should publish the last of recognized colleges and other details with in 3 days of the publication of XII results.

Justice Sasidharan also stated that a mechanism for compensating damages to students whose career are affected badly by management of colleges / schools that admit students without statutory recognition / affiliation in violation of rules. It is declared that details like pending application, grant of approval and the final list of approved Institutes, should also be published by the authorities concerned, before the last date of application submission. The judge passed orders on the writ petition of St John’s College of nursing which had admitted 50 students was reduced to 30 students .

The judge also added that the illegal admissions would come to only when the students are applying for the final or public examinations when the examining bodies are rejecting them to write the examinations.

The Judge strongly condemned the college management which has turned a noble cause into a lucrative business.

Details of Affiliation of colleges to make public

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