The Hindu : HC admits plea to quash GO on MBA, MCA admission

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Saturday, Apr 20, 2002

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HC admits plea to quash GO on MBA, MCA admission

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI April 19. The Madras High Court has admitted a petition seeking to quash a Government Order which envisages single window admission system for MBA and MCA courses in government, aided and self-financing colleges in the State.

Justice K. Raviraja Pandian ordered notices to the Higher Education Secretary, the Director of Technical Education and the Anna University on a petition filed by the Chennai-based Velammal College of Management and Computer Studies.

The college contended that the impugned GO dated April 4 was ultra vires since admission for the courses concerned for the academic year 2002-03 had already been completed. Noting that most of the students had already joined the course after writing admission test and participating in interview, it said the Government move created apprehension and confusion in the minds of the students as well as the colleges.

``It is not open to the Government to claim that admission should be done under single window system at such a belated stage,'' the petitioner-college contended, adding that till date the order had not been communicated to them by the Government.

It also submitted that since MBA and MCA courses were technical in nature, and approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Government could not take a decision on the mode of selection and admission without the prior concurrence of the AICTE.

It wanted the impugned GO quashed and also sought the suspension of the operation of the GO pending disposal of the present petition.

HC fiat to Collector

In another case, the First Bench of the court directed the Tiruchi Collector and the Director of the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination (TNPCEE) to allow one I. Swaminathan of Tiruchi to sit for the entrance examinations. Directing the officials to issue the hall ticket to the boy, the Bench said the result, however, should not be declared until further orders.

Swaminathan's father, V. Ayyappan, contended that since a case pertaining to the community certificate of the candidate was pending in the court, the officials were not issuing a certificate attesting that he belonged to the Scheduled Caste Kattu Naickan community.

He sought a direction to the authorities to allow Swaminathan to sit for the TNPCEE scheduled for April 20 and 21.

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