HC stays public-pvt engg college plan

6 May 2009
The Madras high court has stayed a proposal by the Anna University-Coimbatore to permit individuals and trusts to start engineering colleges under private-public partnership (PPP) scheme without the AICTE approval.

Granting interim stay on the establishment of such university constituent' institutions for a period of eight weeks, a vacation bench comprising Justice P Jyothimani and Justice T S Sivagnanam issued notices to the AICTE, the Anna University-Coimbatore and two others, including the Bangalore-based International School of Business and Research.

In his petition, C Thangavel of Erode contended that as per the controversial PPP scheme envisaged by the university, no AICTE approval as mandated under Section 10 of the AICTE Act was needed to start an engineering college, which also did not require any affiliation from the university.

The petitioner said the scheme was vitiated by lack of bonafide. Though the university syndicate did not give a clear-cut go-ahead for the proposal on February 18, efforts were being made to start the college from the coming academic year and commence admission of students without the mandatory AICTE nod for infrastructural facilities, the petition said.

Petitioner said the university erroneously presumes the proposed institutions as university colleges and considers that they do not need any approval from the AICTE. Describing this as "fallacious," the petitioner said the university was attempting to permit a private body to start a college as a franchise of the university and not merely opening a department of the university to impart technical education.

Besides seeking a stay on the February 18 resolution of the syndicate, the petitioner wanted the court to quash the proposal to establish university constituent colleges' under the PPP scheme pursuant to that resolution

Source:-http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/HC-stays-public-pvt-engg-college-plan/articleshow/4488562.cms

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