ALLOW 11 B.Ed COLLEGES, HC TELLS STATE
The High Court on Friday directed the government to grant permission to 11 B.Ed. colleges, having about 600 seats, belonging to petitioners, in line with the orders of a single judge. It directed the state universities to grant affiliation to these colleges.
These 11 colleges had secured approval from the National Council for Teachers Education to offer the B.Ed course, but the government had withheld permission.
The High Court on Friday directed the government to grant permission to 11 B.Ed. colleges, having about 600 seats, belonging to petitioners, in line with the orders of a single judge. It directed the state universities to grant affiliation to these colleges.
A single judge had told the government to allow the colleges, following which it had challenged the order.
A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice A. Shankar Narayana was dismissing the writ appeals moved by the state government.
Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao, the single judge, had earlier directed the TSCHE to include the petitioner colleges in the second phase of web counselling for allotment of students in B.Ed courses for 2016-17 in view of the recognition granted to them by the National Council for Teachers Education.
The bench concurred with the findings of the single judge that the government had no power to reject the prayer of an institution for grant of permission or to overrule the decision of the national council.
The judge had said, “Once the NCTE has granted recognition, it is deemed and implied that it has satisfied itself that the institution in question has adequate financial resources, accommodation, library, qualified staff and laboratory required for proper functioning of the institution for a course or training in teacher-education.”
The judge ruled that it was not open to the government to refuse permission to the petitioners on the ground that the colleges did not have adequate qualified staff.
Justice Ramachandra Rao had passed the orders on a batch of petitions by managements of private B Ed colleges questioning the refusal of affiliation by the universities on the ground that the TS government had not issued a GO granting permission under Section 20 of the AP Education Act, 1982, as adopted by the TS government.
The 11 B.Ed colleges including KRK Reddy College of Education, K. Narayana Memorial College of Education, Alexander B.Ed College, Sri Venkateswara College of Education, Vidyarthi College of Education, Apoorva College of Education, Shatavaha College of Education, Sri Aurobindo College of Education Shree Vashista B.Ed College, Chandana B.Ed College, Don Bosco College of Education and Rakesh B.Ed College, had moved the High Court.