Notice issued on plea seeking NAAC communication be declared illegal
Justice K Ravichandra Baabu issued two weeks notice when the petition from the Ranking company came up for hearing on February 13.
Published: 15th February 2019 01:52 AM
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has ordered notice on a writ petition from City-based Indian Centre for Academic Ranking and Excellence, to declare a communication dated January 21 last of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in Bangalore, to Directorate of Higher Education in Maharashtra, as motivated, biased, without jurisdiction and therefore illegal.
Justice K Ravichandra Baabu issued two weeks notice when the petition from the Ranking company came up for hearing on February 13.
According to advocate Murali Kumaran, the petitioner company was providing comprehensive rating services for universities and educational institutions across the country. It, upon being declared to be a successful bidder, entered into an MoU on August 18, 2017 with NAAC for extending services – data validation and verification for assessment and accreditation purposes. As per the MoU, the petitioner firm intimated NAAC about the details of higher education institutions to which the petitioner company was extending its services, so that such institutions will not be allotted to the petitioner company, to ascertain impartiality.
By merely misconstruing, NAAC issued a show cause notice dated October 31, 2018, stating that there was a breach of the terms of the contract, to which the firm gave a reply on November 8, 2018, and further action was dropped. The Council, vide e-tender notice dated September 7, 2018, called for applications for empanelment for data validation and verification. The petitioner took part in it and was declared to be technically qualified.
While so, the Council officials, who were unofficially rendering private consultancy services to higher education institutions in various parts of the country, got disturbed due to the growth and the preferences by the institutions across the country towards the petitioner company, which resulted in threatening and forcing it to withdraw from the tender process.
In the course of its business activity, the Directorate of Higher Education in Maharashtra invited the petitioner to conduct a workshop for the public universities and higher education institutions by giving a seminar on New NAAC methodology and the Maharashtra State Institutional Ranking Framework, on January 23, 2019. While so, the Council issued the impugned communication dated January 21 last to the Maharashtra Higher Education Directorate and a news item was published by an English daily on January 23, stating that the NAAC has banned the petitioner firm. Hence, the present petition.
Justice K Ravichandra Baabu issued two weeks notice when the petition from the Ranking company came up for hearing on February 13.
Published: 15th February 2019 01:52 AM
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has ordered notice on a writ petition from City-based Indian Centre for Academic Ranking and Excellence, to declare a communication dated January 21 last of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in Bangalore, to Directorate of Higher Education in Maharashtra, as motivated, biased, without jurisdiction and therefore illegal.
Justice K Ravichandra Baabu issued two weeks notice when the petition from the Ranking company came up for hearing on February 13.
According to advocate Murali Kumaran, the petitioner company was providing comprehensive rating services for universities and educational institutions across the country. It, upon being declared to be a successful bidder, entered into an MoU on August 18, 2017 with NAAC for extending services – data validation and verification for assessment and accreditation purposes. As per the MoU, the petitioner firm intimated NAAC about the details of higher education institutions to which the petitioner company was extending its services, so that such institutions will not be allotted to the petitioner company, to ascertain impartiality.
By merely misconstruing, NAAC issued a show cause notice dated October 31, 2018, stating that there was a breach of the terms of the contract, to which the firm gave a reply on November 8, 2018, and further action was dropped. The Council, vide e-tender notice dated September 7, 2018, called for applications for empanelment for data validation and verification. The petitioner took part in it and was declared to be technically qualified.
While so, the Council officials, who were unofficially rendering private consultancy services to higher education institutions in various parts of the country, got disturbed due to the growth and the preferences by the institutions across the country towards the petitioner company, which resulted in threatening and forcing it to withdraw from the tender process.
In the course of its business activity, the Directorate of Higher Education in Maharashtra invited the petitioner to conduct a workshop for the public universities and higher education institutions by giving a seminar on New NAAC methodology and the Maharashtra State Institutional Ranking Framework, on January 23, 2019. While so, the Council issued the impugned communication dated January 21 last to the Maharashtra Higher Education Directorate and a news item was published by an English daily on January 23, stating that the NAAC has banned the petitioner firm. Hence, the present petition.
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