Southern States - Tamil Nadu

Orders reserved on plea against single window system

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI JUNE 21. A Division Bench of the Madras High Court today reserved its orders on a batch of petitions challenging the Government move to introduce the single window system of admissions for MBA and MCA courses in Government, aided and unaided colleges in the State.

For more than a week, the Bench comprising Justice R. Jayasimha Babu and Justice E. Padmanabhan, heard arguments from senior counsel, the Advocate-General, N.R. Chandran, G. Masilamani (for Anna University). Rajiv Dhawan, R. Krishnamurthy, Habibulla Basha, P. Haridoss, Mohan Parasaran, K. Duraisamy and R. Natraj represented the petitioner-institutions. M. Santhanam represented the AICTE.

Meanwhile, in its counter-affidavit, the AICTE contended that the institutions offering MBA/MCA are bound to comply with the norms and guidelines set out by the respective State Governments in matters of admissions, fee structure, syllabi, etc.

According to the AICTE advisor, P.N. Razdan, ``the AICTE is very specific to mention that no management/trust/institutions shall make their own admissions as per the directions issued by the Supreme Court in the Unnikrishnan case''.

On the fee structure, he said the Union Government had published a gazette notification on March 18, 1997 clearly indicating that the State-level Fee Committee would determine the fees to be charged by the private unaided technical institutions.

``These resolutions were issued as direction under Section 20(1) of the AICTE Act and have become binding for implementation of the Act. It is, therefore, evident that State-level Fee Committees constituted by the AICTE for the respective States will determine fees for MBA/MCA. In respect of Tamil Nadu, such Committees have been formed periodically, lastly in 2001,'' he added in his counter-affidavit.

Noting that the preparations to conduct all-India admission and counselling procedure were still in preliminary stage, he said its implementation would take another year. ``State-level central counselling should be allowed till a national-level test is conducted,'' he added.

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