Court Stays BEd Admissions Tamil Nadu Self Financing Colleges BEd institutions

Court Stays B.Ed Admissions

Court Stays B.Ed Admissions

Students shall not be admitted until further orders of this court”

Chennai: Admission of students for B.Ed. courses in unaided self-financing institutions under the government quota was stayed by the Madras High Court on Tuesday.

The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice P. Jyothimani, was passing interim orders on a petition filed by Tamil Nadu Self-Financing Colleges of Education Management Association president R. Tamil Mani.

The Judges said: “The respondents can receive the applications, but shall not process them. Students shall not be admitted until further orders of this court.

The matter was then adjourned to August 13 for further proceedings.

The petitioner-association assailed three provisions of the Government Order dated July 4, 2007, stipulating that the unaided self-financing institutions offering B.Ed. courses should surrender 50 per cent of their sanctioned intake to the government quota; follow the rule of reservation; admit students by selection and counselling through the single window system. Mandating the rule of reservation for non-minority self-financing institutions to follow 69 per cent of reservation as per the State Government’s policy is unlawful and unjust, the petitioner said. The single window system of admission was not a proper method to select candidates, as standardisation of marks obtained in undergraduate courses would be difficult.

“The impugned G.O is not only unwarranted but also an unnecessary interference with the autonomy of the private B.Ed. institutions in the State,” it said.

Court Stays B.Ed Admissions

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