HC moved against engg college run by Alagiri's trust

Updated on: Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A petition has been filed in Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court against the engineering college set up here by a trust in which Union Minister M K Alagiri is a trustee, alleging violation of Land Reforms Act in acquiring land for it.

The petitioner, a farmers association, also alleged the Daya Engineering College, run by M K Alagiri Educational Trust, had been built after silting a channel that linked a river to a tank which irrigated 350 acres of land.

In his petition, Secretary of the Madurai District Farmers' Welfare Association M.Ramalingam charged that during the DMK regime a fradulent land use certificate was obtained declaring that the area as dry land after silting the channel.

He also alleged some inpidual farmers had been threatened to sell their lands to the college.

Also, the college had violated one of the conditions for granting approval by letting sewage into the river and dug giant borewells resulting in drinking water shortage in the area, the petition contended.

The petitioner submitted that the livelihood of the farmers would be doomed if the college was permitted to function and sought a direction to the Anna University of Technology not to grant affiliation to it pending disposal of the writ petition.

He also sought an inquiry into the renovation of the tank and prayed for a direction to the PWD Secretary, Madurai Collector and others to restore the water courses that originally existed in respect of the Karisal tank.

Last week, the high court bench had directed the state government to include the college in the list of institutions authorised to admit students in the single window counselling for 2011-12 academic year conducted by the AUT.

The court passed the order on a petition by the college authorities alleging that state officials were 'deliberately' refusing permission for participating in the counselling citing some 'trivial' defects since Alagiri was one of the trustees.

HC moved against engg college run by Alagiri's trust

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