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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 regime to take fresh steps within 15 days for filling up all the vacant seats in recognised colleges.
The matter relating to a generous 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 Regime’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 Regime 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 Regime 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 Regime 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 recollection. 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 choice. “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 tolerable scores of unaffiliated institutions to thrive 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.