HC orders panel to fix medical course fees
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, April 27, 2018 00:00 IST
Panel to submit report in four months
The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) as well as Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry to constitute a committee, as ordered by the court on June 16 last year, for fixing the fee structure that could be charged by deemed to be universities in Puducherry for admission in medical courses.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose issued the direction on a public interest litigation petition filed by advocate V.B.R. Menon accusing the deemed universities of charging Rs. 40 lakh to Rs. 50 lakh a student from even those who had been selected through common counselling in the State quota and liable to pay Rs. 5.5 lakh.
After finding that the committee was yet to be constituted despite directions issued 10 months ago, the judges ordered that the committee should be constituted within three weeks and its recommendations submitted within four months, from the date of constitution, after giving an opportunity of hearing to all stakeholders including the deemed universities.
Although the petitioner sought a similar direction with respect to the self-financing colleges, the judges asked him to file a separate writ petition on that issue. In so far as one more PIL filed by the advocate to discharge 35 students who, according to him, had been admitted illegally, the judges refrained from passing any orders. The Division Bench pointed out that the issue of them having been admitted illegally or not could be decided only in the writ petitions filed by them.
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, April 27, 2018 00:00 IST
Panel to submit report in four months
The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) as well as Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry to constitute a committee, as ordered by the court on June 16 last year, for fixing the fee structure that could be charged by deemed to be universities in Puducherry for admission in medical courses.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose issued the direction on a public interest litigation petition filed by advocate V.B.R. Menon accusing the deemed universities of charging Rs. 40 lakh to Rs. 50 lakh a student from even those who had been selected through common counselling in the State quota and liable to pay Rs. 5.5 lakh.
After finding that the committee was yet to be constituted despite directions issued 10 months ago, the judges ordered that the committee should be constituted within three weeks and its recommendations submitted within four months, from the date of constitution, after giving an opportunity of hearing to all stakeholders including the deemed universities.
Although the petitioner sought a similar direction with respect to the self-financing colleges, the judges asked him to file a separate writ petition on that issue. In so far as one more PIL filed by the advocate to discharge 35 students who, according to him, had been admitted illegally, the judges refrained from passing any orders. The Division Bench pointed out that the issue of them having been admitted illegally or not could be decided only in the writ petitions filed by them.
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