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| Harsh Dev hails interim directions of High Court | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 6
MLA and former Education Minister have hailed the interim directions issued by the High Court where by the order pertaining to opening of degree colleges at Kilhotrian and Dharmari has been kept in abeyance.
As per release, he said High Court had always upheld the rule of law and acted as the custodian of the civil liberties and fundamental rights of the citizens of the state, and added that the present case was a testimony to the fact and further strengthened the confidence of the common man in judiciary and fortified his belief that arbitrary exercise of power had no place in an egalitarian society and in a democratic system.
He said that in opening of public institutions out of exchequer, a definite criteria and guidelines have to be followed and authorities can’t act on discretion alone in contravention of stipulated parameters.
Opening of colleges at Kilhotrian and Dharmari had been challenged in the High Court on the ground that no definite criteria or uniform policy had been followed. He said, and added that Kilothrian had been given a degree college by ignoring sub-division headquarter at Gandoh only to satisfy the personal ego of the chief minister. Likewise, he said that Dharmari village had been selected for opening of college by ignoring the tehsil head quarter of Mahore and Gool only because Dharmari was the native village of minister of state, Aijaz Ahmed Khan who was the MOS of higher education at the relevant point of time when the order for opening of Degree College was issued. According to MLA, that these points had been raised in the writ petition which had been duly taken cognizance by the High Court in granting stay order on the opening of the said colleges.
Harsh said that the greatest anomaly in the impugned govt. order was that villages had been preferred and tehsil head quarters had been ignored and through the mode of writ petition for issuing directions to the state govt. to consider opening of Degree Colleges in the tehsils of Majalta, Mahore, Sunderbani, Chenani, Gool, Kalakot and Magam, the release added. |
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