Hyderabad High Court
Hyderabad: The
Hyderabad High Court on Monday refused to stay the ongoing web
counselling of Eamcet 2014 for filling seats in engineering colleges in
Telangana state. Justice Rajasekhar Reddy was hearing a batch of
petitions by private engineering colleges as an urgent motion
challenging the action of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
of Hyderabad in cancelling affiliation to 174 colleges on the ground of
inadequate facilities and faculty.
Several
senior counsels appearing for the colleges contended that the
University refused the affiliations to the colleges without there being
any prior notices and the varsity has no power to refuse the affiliation
once the All India Technical Education Council accorded permission to
run the colleges.
The counsels urged
the Court to direct the Higher Education Council of the state to include
the colleges in Web Counselling without reference to the decision of
the JNTU, otherwise they will be put to irreparable loss as the affected
colleges have about 1.25 lakh seats of various branches of engineering.
The
counsels argued that the regulations mandated issuance of notice and
giving opportunity to rectify the deficiencies. K. Ramakrishna Reddy,
advocate general of Telangana arguing on behalf of the Higher Education
Council and the varsity, said most of the engineering colleges in the
state of Telangana do not have the basic amenities including computers,
toilets and faculty and the government is not going to spend funds on
such colleges.
Mr Ramakrishna Reddy
said that the Supreme Court had directed the governments to complete the
admission process by August 31 and if stay is granted it will be
contrary to the orders of the Apex Court.
Maintaining
that the Higher Education Council as well as the varsity will be made
available in the notices in their websites by August 20, he urged the
court not to grant any stay and grant time till August 22 to file the
counter affidavits on the petitions. While considering the request of
the advocate general, the judge admitted the petitions and adjourned the
case to August 22.
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