The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed two deemed universities — Yenepoya and K.S. Hedge — both of Mangalore, to admit candidates for the first year medical course sent to their institutions by the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA).
The direction will benefit 32 candidates who had been refused admission by the universities saying that they were deemed universities and they were not required to abide by the State Government order on admission of students.
A Division Bench comprising Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice K. Bhatkatavsala passed the order after a marathon hearing. The Bench was dealing with petitions by the students selected under the KEA, deemed universities and students selected after they appeared for an all-India test.
The Bench dismissed petitions by the universities questioning the action of the Government in the allotment of government-quota seats. They said since the Centre had granted them deemed university status, they did not come under the purview of the State Government. Therefore, the State could not allot seats to students who underwent counselling by KEA.
Advocate-General (AG) Ashok Harnahalli submitted that the State had given a no-objection certificate to the two institutions to obtain deemed university status only after they volunteered to surrender 25 seats each to the State Government.
Students selected by the management of the two universities said they had obtained seats after passing an al India test. They urged the court to protect their rights.
The Bench dismissed the petitions of the two universities and the petition by students selected by the management. It allowed petitions by students selected by the KEA and directed the institutions to admit them.
It said that Nitte (K.S. Hedge) was not a deemed university as it was yet to disaffiliate itself from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). Any deemed university should not be affiliated to any institution and it should be independent.
It said that the conduct of the universities in first agreeing to surrender seats and then retracting from the undertaking was not acceptable.
It said no-objection certificate (NoC) from the State Government was compulsory and one of the requirements for an institution seeking deemed university status.
Tuesday’s order ensures that Yenepoya would have to admit 20 students and K.S. Hedge 12 students. Sixteen other students who were refused admission by these institutions were subsequently admitted to other medical colleges. The court said as admission of students under the government quota had come down this year, the institutions would have to make it up next year.
In addition to 25 seats, Yenepoya would have to surrender five more seats, while K.S. Hedge would have to give to the Government 13 seats in addition to the 25 it had promised.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Applications invited
The University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) has invited applications for postgraduate programmes in Landscape architecture and Construction and Project Management of M. Arch in its Department of Architecture UVCE Principal Venugopal K.R. said interested candidates might apply and appear for counselling at the college premises at 10 a.m. on October 9. Call 080-22961811 or mobile phone 9663083295 for details.
Education, bangalore news, KPSC results,
Education, bangalore news, KPSC results,
Monday, September 7, 2009
Lecturer manages to get two postings
A lecturer recently selected by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has surprised the officials of the Department of Collegiate Education by securing placement orders in two colleges during the recent counselling.
A day after he was given placement orders as commerce lecturer at the Government First Grade College in Arsikere, the candidate, Ravi Kumar, who is said to be an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat (ABVP) activist, worked his way through myriad procedures to secure an order to report for duty at the Government Arts College in Bangalore instead.
A shocked Commissioner for Collegiate Education Nagambika Devi, who came upon the irregularity, immediately cancelled the second order and ordered an inquiry. “We have cancelled the second order. We have sought an explanation from him and will take punitive action,” she told The Hindu.
Ravi Kumar’s “ingenuity” came to light when a candidate sought a modification in his posting. “The candidate cited Ravi Kumar’s case and even produced documents to prove the modification,” she said. “Obviously, an insider is involved. An inquiry will be held to identify him,” she said.
“This is the first time that a transparent system for posting lecturers through counselling procedure has been adopted. Hitherto, selected candidates had to ‘meet influential people’ for a posting of their choice. Under this system, everybody has an equal chance. Almost 90 per cent of the candidates are happy,” she said.
The Department of Collegiate Education followed the seniority list prepared by the KPSC to post lecturers to colleges. “However, we gave concession to handicapped candidates, who were preferred over other candidates to give a posting to colleges of their choice,” she said.
Though the demand for colleges in Bangalore was high, a large number of selected lecturers even preferred colleges in Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur.
“There were several takers for colleges in north Karnataka as many selected candidates hailed from these places. This could be due to the fact that recruitment of lecturers was held after a long time,” she said.
A day after he was given placement orders as commerce lecturer at the Government First Grade College in Arsikere, the candidate, Ravi Kumar, who is said to be an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat (ABVP) activist, worked his way through myriad procedures to secure an order to report for duty at the Government Arts College in Bangalore instead.
A shocked Commissioner for Collegiate Education Nagambika Devi, who came upon the irregularity, immediately cancelled the second order and ordered an inquiry. “We have cancelled the second order. We have sought an explanation from him and will take punitive action,” she told The Hindu.
Ravi Kumar’s “ingenuity” came to light when a candidate sought a modification in his posting. “The candidate cited Ravi Kumar’s case and even produced documents to prove the modification,” she said. “Obviously, an insider is involved. An inquiry will be held to identify him,” she said.
“This is the first time that a transparent system for posting lecturers through counselling procedure has been adopted. Hitherto, selected candidates had to ‘meet influential people’ for a posting of their choice. Under this system, everybody has an equal chance. Almost 90 per cent of the candidates are happy,” she said.
The Department of Collegiate Education followed the seniority list prepared by the KPSC to post lecturers to colleges. “However, we gave concession to handicapped candidates, who were preferred over other candidates to give a posting to colleges of their choice,” she said.
Though the demand for colleges in Bangalore was high, a large number of selected lecturers even preferred colleges in Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur.
“There were several takers for colleges in north Karnataka as many selected candidates hailed from these places. This could be due to the fact that recruitment of lecturers was held after a long time,” she said.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Appointment nod for 2,550 lecturers
The Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) on Wednesday upheld the final selection list of candidates for the post of lecturers in
first-grade colleges prepared by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC).
The KAT bench headed by chairman Justice A V Srinivasa Reddy dismissed the batch of petitions filed by Ravindranath and others and upheld KPSC's notification dated December 24, 2007.
The KAT observed that whether degrees given by distance education universities
are valid or not don't come under the tribunal's judicial review. The UGC has the authority to verify the genuineness of a degree given by the distance education council.
In June, KAT stayed KPSC's final selection list of 2,550 lecturers. The list was issued on February 19 and 27.
The applicants challenged the validity of educational qualifications of the selected candidates. Most of them passed M Phil through Alagappa Univerisity, Periyar University and Vinayaka Mission University __ all in Tamil Nadu.
Alagappa and Periyar universities don't have approval of the distance education council and UGC.
first-grade colleges prepared by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC).
The KAT bench headed by chairman Justice A V Srinivasa Reddy dismissed the batch of petitions filed by Ravindranath and others and upheld KPSC's notification dated December 24, 2007.
The KAT observed that whether degrees given by distance education universities
are valid or not don't come under the tribunal's judicial review. The UGC has the authority to verify the genuineness of a degree given by the distance education council.
In June, KAT stayed KPSC's final selection list of 2,550 lecturers. The list was issued on February 19 and 27.
The applicants challenged the validity of educational qualifications of the selected candidates. Most of them passed M Phil through Alagappa Univerisity, Periyar University and Vinayaka Mission University __ all in Tamil Nadu.
Alagappa and Periyar universities don't have approval of the distance education council and UGC.
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