B.Ed. exams of Madhya Pradesh colleges for the year 2007-08 were pending due to court cases. Now the exams are being held in the year 2009. The date sheet of the exams is available at following link:
August 19, 2009
M.P. Govt. to take fresh steps to fill B.Ed. seats
Apex court declines plea for college-level counselling
BHOPAL: The Supreme Court has passed an order declining a prayer for college level counselling to fill up seats for the B.Ed. course but directing the Madhya Pradesh government to take fresh steps within 15 days for filling up all the vacant seats in recognised colleges.
The matter relating to a large number of seats for B.Ed. course that were lying vacant was brought to the notice of the Supreme Court through a special leave petition. The petitioners were Bhopal’s Takshila College and all other unaided private colleges offering B.Ed. courses.
It was brought to the notice of the Supreme Court that for taking admission to B.Ed. course within the State of Madhya Pradesh, after exhausting the State quota, 8,411 seats were still lying vacant.
The State Government’s stand before the Court was that in pursuance of the direction of the High Court (Para 19 of the impugned order), 5,142 seats would be filled up by admitting the students who had taken the common admission test, but even after this 3,269 seats would still be lying vacant.
The Supreme Court disposed of the petitions ordering that the State Government be directed totake fresh steps to fill up all the vacant seats in recognised colleges within 15 days.
Permission denied
Even after two phases of counselling, the State Government had refused to permit the recognised colleges to fill up seats by admitting eligible available students that had not taken the common entrance test. The private colleges had approached the Supreme Court challenging an earlier High Court order and to seek permission for filling up their seats by college-level counselling.
The Supreme Court declined the prayer for college-level counsellingbut directed the State Government to fill upthe vacant seats by holding centralised counselling. Senior advocates Vivek Tankha and P. S. Pantwalia appeared for the B.Ed colleges.
No relief to private BEd colleges, HC verdict upheld
The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly criticised unbridled privatisation of education and setting up of institutions without obtaining proper affiliation and recognition. The apex court was dealing with a petition filed by unaffiliated private educational institutions imparting BEd (Bachelor of Education) courses in Madhya Pradesh to permit their students to write their annual examination.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court had earlier passed a judgment rejecting the plea of 196 unaffiliated colleges for permitting their students to appear in the exams for the present academic year.
The vacation Bench, comprising Justices B Sudershan Reddy and Aftab Alam, found no infirmity in the High Court’s decision. “Any such direction could be destructive of the rule of law. It is revolting and our conscience does not allow our allegiance to the Constitution to be affected by giving such direction,” the Bench observed. “We have read the High Court judgment thoroughly and we share the anguish expressed therein,” the Bench observed.
The High Court, while dismissing the plea of the unaffiliated colleges, had slammed the manner in which the authorities had permitted scores of unaffiliated institutions to flourish in marriage halls and tin sheds.
The apex court also sought a response from Dr Hari Singh Gaur University in Sagar on the plea of the colleges seeking permission for the students to write the examination.
August 8, 2009
Annamalai University M.A. (without B.A.) not eligible for LLB, says SC
NEW DELHI: In the age of the open university system of distance education where one can get a higher degree without having basic ones, this ruling
from the Supreme Court has come as a dampner.
To the question — whether a candidate, who has got a post-graduate degree from an open university without completing his graduation, be eligible to be admitted to the LLB course requiring graduation as an educational qualification — the apex court’s answer was an emphatic ‘no’.
Upholding Guru Nanak Dev University’s contention and setting aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict, a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and R V Raveendran said once the minimum eligibility criterion was a regular graduation degree, the stipulation could not be side-stepped by a post-graduation degree from an open university.
Appealing against the HC order directing it to admit Sanjay Kumar Katwal to the LLB course on the basis of his post-graduation degree through the distance education from Annamalai University, GNDU said it recognised the regular and correspondence course degrees conferred by Annamalai University but not the ones obtained through the open university system. Counntering GNDU’s stand, Katwal argued before the Bench that the distance education system included correspondence courses and therefore post-graduation through correspondence was equivalent to the regular MA degree.
President as Visitor of Central Universities
There are 39 Central Universities under the purview of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, created under the Act of Parliament. Out of them 15 new Central Universities have been established w.e.f 15.1.2009 in hitherto uncovered States (except Goa), by an ordinance promulgated by the president of India. The ordinance has since been replaced by an Act of parliament, namely, Central Universities Act, 2009 which has been assented to by the president of India on 20th March, 2009. While 38 of these are getting maintenance and development grants by the Central Government through the UGC, IGNOU, New Delhi is funded directly by the Ministry of HRD.
President of India is the Visitor of all Central Universities
President/Visitor nominates some members to the executive Committee/ Board of Management/Court/Selection Committees of the University as per the provisions made in the relevant University Act.
President as Visitor also exercises powers in respect of amendments, additions and repeal of status; suspension and disallowance of Ordinances; ordering enquiries into the affairs of the Universities; and resolution of disputes between Selection Committees and the executive Councils.
Ministry provides secretariat service for appointment of Vice-Chancellor, Visitor’s nominee on the Executive Committees, Courts, Selection Committees by the Visitor and also examines each matter that comes up for Visitor’s consideration and orders.