HC allows Adesh varsity to charge notified fee
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has permitted Adesh University, Bathinda, to charge fee notified by it for the admissions to MBBS and dental courses. The HC bench of justices S Muralidhar and Avneesh Jhingan observed that issues raised by the varsity needed to be examined in detail. Hence, the varsity is permitted to collect fee as prescribed for the management quota, even for the 50% government quota seats. However, the differential amount collected would be kept in fixed deposits within two weeks of the completion of the admission process and receipt for the same would be deposited with state’s health department. The varsity has also been told that students at the time of admission would be informed that the reduction in the amount of fee would be subject to high court’s decision, said counsel Jatinder Singh Gill. The matter has been posted for hearing on December 14 and government has been told to file response by that time.
Varsity’s counsel Gurminder Singh had told court that as per September 2, 2020, notification the government inserted two clauses. The first pertains to the distribution of seats under which 50% seats in private colleges have been allotted to government quota. Such appropriation of seats by the state in respect of unaided private educational institutions is impermissible, Singh had argued.
Second clause, as per Singh, is that government seeks to regulate admission fee. While government quota fee has been capped at ₹3.5 lakh for the first year, management quota fee has been kept at ₹9 lakh against ₹11.9 lakh charged by the varsity last year, he had informed the court, further adding that the fee fixed for the government quota seats is just 1/3rd of that chargeable for the management quota seats. If the appropriation of seats is impermissible, then such regulation of the fee structure for the government quota seats would also be illegal, he had argued.
THE DIFFERENTIAL AMOUNT WILL BE KEPT IN FIXED DEPOSITS WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF ADMISSION TO MBBS, DENTAL COURSES