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Tamil Nadu
By Our Staff Reporter
They are: The PSG College of Pharmacy (Coimbatore), the Madurai Medical College (Madurai), Vel's College of Pharmacy (Chennai), the Trichy College of Pharmacy (Tiruchi), the Padmavathi College of Pharmacy (Dharmapuri), the KK College of Pharmacy (Chennai), the Edayathangudy GS Pillay College of Pharmacy (Nagoor), Annai Veilankanni's Pharmacy College (Chennai), the Jey.J. College of Pharmacy (Chennai) and the Maharaji College of Pharmacy (Chennai). Justice E. Padmanabhan, titling his judgment as `A shocking conduct of educational institution and omission of authorities', also directed the managements and the Director of Medical Education to file reports by December 2, with details of PCI approval status, student intake and the mode of admissions. The principals should inform their students of the suo motu action and tell them that they could convey their stand to the court either directly or through counsel. (The case pertained to the grant of affiliation by the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University to the Fatima College of Pharmacy and the Pearl Peace Medical Mission College of Pharmacy, despite their not having AICTE or PCI approval. Even the Government selection committee allotted students to the institutions through the single-window system. All this came to light only when students, who had completed the course, were denied registration with the PCI on the ground that the institutions were not recognised ones. They moved the court for transfer to approved and affiliated institutions.) Declaring the university affiliation of these colleges null and void, Mr. Justice Padmanabhan directed the two managements to refund all amounts collected from the students. The money should be remitted to the university registrar within four weeks. The students should submit a statement of account for the money, with supporting vouchers within six weeks, for reclaiming the sum. On its part, the selection committee and the Government should delist the two colleges from the institutions eligible for admissions through the single-window system. The registrar should ensure that the affected students were accommodated in approved and affiliated institutions. Those who had already completed the course and left the colleges should also be admitted. They would study the course for a year and take up the university examination as if they studied three years in the college to which they were allotted. The admission should be completed within four weeks. "This batch of writ petitions palpably demonstrates the wasteful years spent by a few hundred students in the two colleges, and the huge expenditure incurred by their parents out of their hard earned money. The wasteful years could not be saved by putting the clock back,'' observed Mr. Justice Padmanabhan. "These two colleges have, for years together, for obvious reasons, concealed and suppressed their failure to secure approval/permission of the AICTE and the PCI... It is shocking and surprising how the university has granted approval to these colleges without the approval of the AICTE and the PCI. It is also really shocking that the selection committee has allotted the candidates to these colleges under the single-window system. The AICTE and the PCI turned a Nelson's eye to them and sat in an ivory tower, ignoring the established principles and allowed the two colleges to run the courses for years together without taking any action."
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