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Friday, June 14, 2013

HC stays GO on management quota admissions

HYDERABAD: The AP High Court on Thursday stayed a government order aimed at regulating the filling up of management quota seats in private engineering colleges.

Responding to scores of petitions filed by private engineering and pharmacy colleges in the state challenging GO No. 66 of 2012, the bench comprising chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and justice N V Ramana directed the state not to give effect to the GO until further orders. The GO had allowed the state government to regulate managements of private colleges while giving admission under management quota, NRI quota etc. It had made it mandatory for colleges to reduce the number of seats meant for NRIs and also have a transparent method of filling these seats particularly through the online system.

Appearing for various colleges, several senior advocates, both from the Supreme Court and the AP High Court, argued that the colleges have been following the mandate of the constitution as far as convenor quota seats are concerned and that they have every right to fill the management quota seats in a liberal way. Seeking to intrude into this area by regulating fee structure is not fair on the part of the state, they argued, adding that they were not consulted before bringing this GO.

Claiming that they provided state-of-the-art infrastructure in their colleges, they maintained that the new rules would make it unviable for them to run the show. When the GO was issued last year, the private colleges had succeeded in getting it stayed on the ground that it was announced at the last minute after the Eamcet notification had been issued.

However, additional advocate general K G Krishna Murthy told the court that the state had jurisdiction over these colleges and hence had every right to control unscrupulous private players. "We brought this GO to bring in transparency in the admission process," he said, adding that mere amendment of certain rules could not amount to violation of rights.

The bench directed the authorities of higher education and technical education to file their counters furnishing all the details pertaining to filling of management quota seats through online system. Apart from the current petitioners - Shreyas educational society, Abhinav hightech educational society etc - several petitions filed last year challenging the same GO too were heard on Thursday.
Courtesy: TOI

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