HC nod for MBBS owner’s quota
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Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar of the AP High Court on Monday directed the NTR University of Health Sciences to take appropriate action on the lists submitted by the managements of non-minority private medical colleges to fill MBBS seats under the management quota (or C-category seats) for 2012-13 academic year in accordance with existing rules.
The matter was placed before Justice Afzul-purkar after a special bench comprising Justices V. Eswariah and N. Ravi Shankar had, on Friday, differed on granting a stay on the admission process.
Justice Eswariah had observed that the guidelines issued by the HC in 2007 for medical admissions are applicable for minority institutions, and that the government should have issued a GO incorporating these guidelines for non-minority private, unaided medical colleges as well. He said the Bench wants these guidelines to be made applicable to non-minority colleges from this session. When the court was told that the software to link the 20 or so colleges for filing applications online may not be viable at this point of time, the judge refused to stay the admission process, as the apex court has already fixed a time schedule for admissions.
But differing with his views, Justice Ravi Shankar ruled that the relevant GO (number 136) issued in 2007, permitting college managements to admit students without reference to marks scored in the entrance test, was against rules and cannot be the basis for selection. While granting a stay on admission in C-category seats in non-minority private medical colleges, he called for “appropriate arrangements” by the state. Partly agreeing with Justice Eswariah’s observations, Justice Afzu-lpurkar ruled that the interim orders granted in the litigation stands vacated.
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