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No.SEO/327/1/2005 12th September, 2005 To The Under Secretary, Association of Indian Universities, AIU House, 16- Kotla Marg,
New Delhi - 110002 Sir, Shingu College, an independent Vocational Education Institute located in the Gyeonggi Province of the Republic of Korea has approached this Embassy for academic relationships with appropriate Indian College or University for educational exchanges. A copy of their communication along with detailed profile of the College is forwarded herewith, which may please be circulated among Institutions in India, so that interested Institutions may directly contact Mr. Kim, Moon-Kang, Development Planning Team, Shingu College, 2685-Geumkwang-2 dong, Jungwon-gu, Seongnam,-si, Republic of Korea-462-743 (Tel: 0082-31-740-1277; Fax: 0082-31-740-1209) for further negotiations before an appropriate agreement is entered into with the College. This Embassy may also please be kept informed of progress in this respect. Sd/- (R.G. Nair) First Secretary (E&C) |
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Supreme Court Judgment on Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya
(Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2002 The Chhattisgarh Legislature enacted the Niji
Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2002 which was published
in the Gazette on 4.2.2002 to establish self financed private universities for higher
education. Under Section 5 of the Act the
State has been empowered to incorporate and establish a University by issuing a
Notification in the Gazette and Section 6 permits such university to affiliate any college
or other institution or set up more than one campus with prior approval of the state government.
Many people used the loophole in the law to sidestep any scrutiny and had set up private
universities. The private universities mushroomed all over the country. Many of these universities had no infrastructure
and even no class-rooms, although they collected high fees from students and had done away
with the role of regulatory bodies or quality controlling agencies. Considering these facts the AIU also took a stand to not give any
temporary membership to these universities and to that effect modified its policy. The law consequently, had attracted censure over the
manner in which it had triggered the haphazard proliferation of private universities in
the country and a public interest litigation had questioned the legality of the Act. The recent Supreme Court ruling declared all these
universities in the country set up under the Act as illegal.
The apex court recorded that the provisions of section 5 and 6 of the Act are
unconstitutional, ultra vires and the
gazette notifications notifying the universities are
liable to be quashed and all such universities cease to exist. Many of the readers of the University News have
requested us to provide the Judgment. The Judgment therefore is being placed in its
original form in the University News for easy access of all its readers. In the
Supreme Court of Writ Petition
(Civil) No.19 of 2004 Prof Yashpal
& Anr.......................Petitioners Versus State of
Chhattisgarh & Ors.............Respondents With Writ Petition
(Civil) Nos.295, 299, 346 and 525 of 2004, Writ
Petition (Civil) Nos.565 of 2003, Civil Appeal Nos.5146, 5161, 5171, 5172, 5174, 5175,
5180, 5184, 5185, 5188, 5189, 5190, 5191, 5197 and 5198 of 2004. JUDGMENT G.P. MATHUR, J. 1. Professor
Yashpal, an eminent Scientist and former Chairman of University Grants Commission, has
filed Writ Petition No.19 of 2004 under Article 32 of the Constitution by way of public
interest litigation for declaring certain provisions of The Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra
Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2002 as ultra vires and for quashing
of the notifications issued by State of Chhattisgarh in the purported exercise of power
conferred by Section 5 of the said Adhiniyam for establishing various universities. The
other petitioner who has joined in the petition, is a resident of Chhattisgarh and is
concerned with the quality of education in his State. The respondent no. 1 to the petition
is the State of 2. The Chhattisgarh Legislature enacted the
Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2002 (for
short ‘the Act') which was published in the Gazette on 4.2.2002 to establish
self-financed private universities for higher education. Under Section 5 of the Act the
State has been empowered to incorporate and establish a university by issuing a
notification in the Gazette and Section 6 permits such university to affiliate any college
or other institution or to set up more than one campus with the prior approval of the
State Government. The main averments in the petition are that after coming into force of
the Act, the State Government has been simply by issuing notifications in the Gazette,
establishing universities in an indiscriminate and mechanical manner without having
slightest regard to the availability of any infrastructure, teaching facility or their
financial resources. In a short span of about one year as many as 112 universities were
established and many of them had absolutely no buildings or campus and were running from
one room tenements. There was absolutely no regulation or supervision over them. The
legislation has been enacted in a manner which has completely done away with any kind of
control of University Grants Commission (for short ‘UGC’) over these private
universities. The guidelines issued by UGC on the courses being taught and award of
academic degrees has been given a complete go-by. The universities issued brochures for
award of all kinds of degrees like “Member of the International Institute of Medical
Sciences”, “Fellow of the
International Institute of Medical Sciences” and many other similar degrees. The
universities are wholly incapable of imparting any education much less a quality education
in absence of basic infrastructure like classrooms, libraries, laboratories or campus. Nevertheless by conferment of a legal status of a
university, they have been empowered to award degrees. The private universities are
running professional courses without taking prior permission from regulatory bodies such
as All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Medical Council of India (MCI),
Dental Council of India (DCI), etc. The requirement of obtaining prior permission from the
regulatory bodies has not been followed and the universities are not under the control of
any authority and are at liberty to grant degrees, diplomas and certificates to gullible
students. The State Government has not done any verification or checking of universities
after issuance of notification in the Gazette, whether they fulfill any norms laid down by
the statutory bodies, which is essential for recognition of the degrees, diplomas and
certificates awarded by such universities. In
absence of requisite permission from the statutory bodies, the degrees and certificates
awarded by such universities would not be recognized by the professional organizations, as
a result whereof the students studying in such universities and obtaining the degrees
therefrom would suffer immense loss, both in terms of money and also the time spent in
completing the courses. It is further averred that the University Grants Commission Act is
made nugatory as private universities are offering courses without subscribing to the
standards laid down by the UGC and there being no homogeneity of the course content, the
degree awarded may not be of any value. The private universities are offering unheard of
courses and degrees which are not part of schedule to the UGC Act, which is in clear
violation of Section 22 of the aforesaid Act and the Schedule appended thereto. The
minimum requirement of teaching staff as laid down in the guidelines of UGC had also been
given a complete go-by. Young students are
being misled in enrolling themselves in courses which do not have any substantive content
and the degrees offered by such private universities would affect the standard of
education at large which in turn will jeopardize the educational system of the whole
country and not that of State of 3. Some photographs have also been filed which show
that a signboard mentioning the name of the University is put over small room or shop on
first or second floor in some congested market area. That they are functioning from small
premises which are sometimes a single small room in a commercial complex or a small
tenement on the first or second floor of a building or an ordinary flat or MIG house is
evident from their address and a few of them are being reproduced below by way of
illustration: Respondent
No.3 :
Room No.201, IInd Floor
Jairam Complex, Respondent
No.13 :
Mishr Bhawan, 1st Floor
Tatyapara, Respondent
No.36 :
M.I.G. 6, Sector 3
Shankar Nagar, Respondent
No.37 :
C-9-12, 1st Floor
Ekatam Prishar
Rajbandha Maidan, Respondent
No.42 :
1st Floor, Mishr Bhawan, Several such universities are functioning outside
the State of Respondent
No.7 :
11/66, Shershah Suri Marg
Mohan Co-operative Industrial Estate, Respondent
No. 9 :
Lovely Auto Complex
Dr. Ambedkar Chowk
Respondent
No.10 :
Babu Banarasi Dass Northern Indian Foundation
Upper Ground Floor, 338-384, S- Block, New Rajinder Nagar, Respondent
No.12 : Dr. Zakir Hussain National University
Unopcharik av Anvrat Shikshan Sansthan
Satellite Centre,
Respondent
No.45 : Bio-Informatics, Bio-Tech. and
Bio- Informatic Respondent
No. 46 :
(N.C.D. Office) Ground Floor
E-382, Greater Kailash Part II
Respondent
No.53 :
N.I.C.I. Society, 54, 4. Writ Petition (Civil) No. 565 of 2003 has been
filed by Gopal Ji Agarwal with the same prayer, namely, that the Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra
Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam 2002 be declared as ultra vires being
violative of Constitution of India, and also contrary to the provisions of University
Grants Commission Act, 1956, Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, All India Council for
Technical Education Act, 1987 and Bar Council of India Act, 1956. A further prayer has
been made that a write of prohibition may be issued restraining the private universities
incorporated under the aforesaid Act from imparting any education and conferring any
degrees or diplomas. The averments made in the writ petition are substantially the same as
made in the writ petition filed by Prof. Yash Pal, that a large number of universities
have been incorporated by merely issuing gazette notifications though they do not have any
kind of infrastructure or teaching facility and are functioning from one room tenement in
a second or third floor in a residential or commercial building and without any teaching
staff. The universities have been established merely to confer degrees and they have on
their own created a large number of degrees and diplomas which are totally unheard of. The
universities had issued advertisements for opening up study centres in different parts of
the country for award of any number of degrees and diplomas.
By way of illustration, copies of advertisements issued by some of the
universities have been filed. One of such university, namely, the Master
of Biotechnology Administration (MBA) - 2Yrs. Master
of Insurance Management (MIM)
- 2 Yrs. M.
Tech in Bioinformatics
- 2Yrs. M.
Tech VLSI (Very Large Scale Intg. Circuits) - 2 Yrs. M.
Tech Elect. Mechanics &. Power M.
Tech Energy Management Systems
- 2 Yrs. M.Sc.
Cheminformatics (Intg)/ Bioinformatics (Intg) -
5 Yrs. M.Sc.
Biotechnology (Intg.)
- 5 Yrs. M.Sc.
Bioinformatics/Biotechnology
- 2 Yrs. B.Sc.
wilh Bioinformatics/Microbiology/Biotechnology
-
3
Yrs. B.Sc.
with Automobiles Science
- 3 Yrs. PGD in
Biotech Marketing
- 1 Yr. PGD in
Imaging (CT Scan) & (MRI)
- 2 Yrs. PGD in
Bioinformatics
- 1.5 Yrs. PG
Diploma in Cheminformatics
- 1 Yr. PG
Diploma in PG
Diploma in Energy Audit and Conservation - 1
Yr. PG
Diploma in Acturial/Sciences in Bioinformatics - 1 Yr. The writ petitioner, not
knowing the correct facts, responded for opening up a study centre and he was asked to
deposit Rs. 50,000/- which he did by two Demand Drafts. On enquiry regarding prior
permission from Medical Council of India, the Registrar of the “Certified that
following PARA MEDICAL COURSES are approved by 1) B P T - 2 Year 2) Bachelor of
Ophthalmology - 2 Year 3) B M L T - 4 Year 4) PG Diploma in Imaging
(MRI) - 1 Year It is further certified
that for Para Medical Course MCI approval is not required and it is not covered by MCI
also.” It is further averred
that the Indian University, Raipur also issued an advertisement inviting applications for
admission to certain types of technical courses in its alleged campus at Graduate School
of Business & Administration, Greater Noida, which is in the district of Gautam Budh
Nagar, in the State of UP and it was mentioned therein that the candidates may apply to
the Registrar by sending a Bank Draft of Rs.
800/-. A photocopy of the advertisement has been filed. It has thus been submitted that
though the private universities have no infrastructure for imparting any kind of
education, they were alluring people all over the country to open study centres for which
they were charging huge amount and also befooling students to apply for admission to
wholly unknown and unheard of technical, medical and other professional courses which are
not recognized by any statutory authority, and thereby a substantial amount of money has
been collected. 5. In a stereotyped manner Gazette notifications
were issued notifying a University and by way of illustration one such notification is
being reproduced below: “ No.
F. 679/........../02. - In exercise
of the powers conferred by sub-Section (1) of Section 5 of the Chhaitisgarh Niji Kshetra
Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana Aur Viniyaman), Adhiniyam 2002 (No. 2 of 2002) for extension of
Higher/Technical Education in Chhattisgarh, hereby, establishes a University known as
“Indian University, Raipur” with effect from the date of publication of this
notification in the Chhattisgarh Gazette and the jurisdiction of the University shall
extend over whole of Chhattisgarh. 2. The Head Office of the
University shall be at 3. The State Government, hereby
authorizes “Indian University, Raipur” to conduct the syllabus and to grant
degree or diplomas for which it shall be recognized or authorized as may be required under
any other law for the time being in force.” 6. Several legal issues have also been raised in the
writ petitions and the principal being that the manner in which these private universities
are functioning would result in creating a complete chaos in the system of higher
education in the country and the expert bodies created by the Central Government like,
University Grants Commission, Medical Council of India, All India Council for Technical
Education etc. for coordination and determination of standards in their own respective
fields would not be able to perform their statutory duty and would make their functioning
not only difficult but almost impossible. 7. The State of Chhattisgarh has filed brief but
almost identical counter affidavits in both the writ petitions. The main plea taken
therein is that in view of Entry 32 List II of Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, the
State has the legislative competence to make an enactment regarding incorporation of a
University. The impugned Act had been passed
to facilitate establishment of private Universities with a view to create supplementary
resources for assisting the State Government in providing quality higher education. The
notifications establishing the Universities were issued on the basis of the
representations made by the sponsoring bodies as set out in their project reports. The
State Government expected that the Universities would make the requisite infrastructure
including campus, building, etc. and recruit qualified staff so as to provide higher
education in order to achieve the object for which the Universities were established.
However, the functioning of the Universities post notification was dismal and completely
belied the expectations which the State of Government had in that behalf, raising serious
concern about the academic interests of the students seeking admission therein. The State
Legislature, accordingly, enacted the Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana
Aur Viniyaman) Sansodhan Adhiniyam, 2004. After
expiry of the time limit fixed in the aforesaid amending Act, 59 Universities were
denotified on account of their failure to comply with the amended provisions. It is
further averred that after the Act had been amended in the year 2004, the
petitioners’ grievance has been completely met and consequently the writ petitions
deserve to be dismissed. 8. Before we advert to the principal submission of
learned counsel for the parties regarding the vires of Section 5 and 6 of the Act, it is
necessary to take note of the relevant constitutional provisions dealing with education
and Universities, both under Government of India Act, 1935, and the Constitution. SEVENTH SCHEDULE OF
GOVERNMENT OF LIST I - FEDERAL
LEGISLATIVE LIST 12. Federal
agencies and institutes for the following purposes, that is to say, for research, for
professional or technical training, or for the promotion of special studies. 13. The LIST
II - PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE LIST 17. Education including Universities other than
specified in paragraph 13 of List I. 33. The incorporation, regulation, and
winding up corporations (not being Corporations specified in List I or Universities);
unincorporated trading, literary, scientific, religious and other societies and
associations; co-operative societies. SEVENTH SCHEDULE TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF LIST I - UNION LIST 63. The
institutions known at the commencement of this Constitution as the 64. Institutions
for scientific or technical education financed by the Government of India wholly or in
part and declared by Parliament by law to be institutions of national importance. 65.
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