INCLUDE PRIVATE MEDICAL COLLEGE IN ADMISSIONS: HC TO CET CELL
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court (HC) last week directed Maharashtra’s Common Entrance Test (CET) cell to include the name of a private homoeopathy college in the third round of student admissions into homoeopathic courses after the regulatory body said the institute’s name was dropped because of infrastructure deficiencies.
A division bench of justices BR Gavai and MS Karnik, hearing the writ petition of Dr JJ Magdum Homoeopathic Medical College in Jaisingpur (Kolhapur district), said prima facie the college had no deficiencies and should be allowed to admit students.
The college, through senior advocate Anil Anturkar, informed the court that the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) had served a show cause notice to them earlier this year before admissions began. The apex body which carried out an inspection of the college in 2014, the petition said, allowed students to be admitted for the academic years of 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 but not for 2018-19.
The college said this was in contravention to the regulatory clauses framed by the CCH in 2013, which state that once infrastructure inspection was carried out and approved, it need not be done for the next five years.
Hearing these submissions, the HC bench said the college should be included in the CET list to admit students for 2018-19 as they have been for the past three years.
“In accordance with clauses 4 and 5 of the Regulation of 3 Homeopathy Central Council (Minimum Standards Requirement of Homeopathic Colleges and attached Hospitals) Regulations 2013, the infrastructure of teaching and training facilities in the petitioner’s medical college was inspected prior to 31.12.2014 and the Petitioner was granted permission for admission for the academic years 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018,” the HC said in its directive.
Withholding permission to do the same, the HC said, would not be sustainable as per law.
THE COLLEGE SAID IT WAS ALLOWED TO ADMIT STUDENTS FOR THE PAST THREE ACADEMIC YEARS BUT WAS SUDDENLY SERVED A SHOW CAUSE NOTICE EARLIER THIS YR