news details |
|
|
| HC directs respondents to issue renewals to ETTI making-up deficiencies | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | July 25
Justice JP Singh of J&K High Court Jammu Wing in nine petitions filed by the Elementary Teachers Training Institutions challenging the Government order of February 29, 2008, whereby a Committee had been constituted to report latest position of infrastructures facilities available in the institutions, has directed the respondents to pass requisite orders in respect of those institutions, which according to the report of inspection committee, had made up deficiencies and improved their status from D to C category for renewal of no objection certificates to run these institutions.
In the petition, in which Sr. Adv SS Lehar along with Advocates Ajay Sharma and Nitin Bhasin appeared for the nine petitioners running Elementary Teacher Training Institutions submitted that the Government order and the report of Committee were liable to be quashed on the ground that no opportunity had been allowed to the petitioners to make-up the deficiencies, if any, noticed by the Committee, before issuing notification placing these institutions in the list of D Category and that the report of committee was not based on facts. Sr. Adv further submitted that respondents deviated from their earlier practice and the students for the current session had not been allotted to them on the ground that these institutions did not figure in the list of those categories of institutions which alone were entitled to impart instructions in ETT Course.
Earlier, Justice Singh during the hearing of the petitions had directed the state respondents to inform the petitioners about the deficiency noticed by the Inspection Committee on the basis they had been placed in the D Category within seven days. Petitioner's institutions to have been allowed to make-up the deficiencies so pointed and inform respondents regarding their having made-up the deficiencies.
Justice Singh, after hearing both the sides, observed that keeping in view the report of the inspection committee indicating that some of the petitioners had improved their status and were entitled to be placed in the list of C category, directed respondents to pass requisite order in respect of those petitioners’ institutions, which according to the report of inspection Committee, have make-up deficiencies and improved their status from D to C category for renewal of NOC to run the institutions. While considering the cases of these institutions the state Government shall also consider grant of permission to those institutions which, in order to make-up the deficiencies had shifted from their existing premises to new premises where their infrastructures had been inspected to shift the premises of course if warranted under law and the guidelines. Court further directed that in the event of state Government's issuing renewal of NOC, the Board shall also consider grant of provisional affiliation to those institutions in whose favour renewed NOC is issued by the State Government. JNF |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
