HC SLAPS Rs 21K FINE ON STATE

HC SLAPS Rs 21K FINE ON STATE 24 Jan 2009, 0353 hrs IST, TNN Text: NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Friday slapped Rs 21,000 fine on the department of higher and technical education for failing to reply to its orders of coming out with the explanation on rejecting permission to three colleges for starting their operations from academic year 2008-09. According to counsel for the petitioner Firdos Mirza, a division bench comprising justices Dilip Sinha and Ashok Bhangale, had levied fine of Rs 7,000 each on department’s failure to reply on rejection of proposals belonging to Swargiya Narandrarao Asthapana College of Deoli, and two branches of Digitech College at Alipur and Bela. The court orders came while hearing a petition alleging irregularities in distribution of 48 new colleges, most of them belong to ministers, MPs, MLAs and former politicians. The petitioners claimed that most of them belonged to educational trusts run by politicians and were apparently distributed under their pressure. These colleges started their operations from academic year 2008-09 and offered general courses like arts, science and commerce. The petitioners had also applied for new colleges from current academic session to the state government, however their applications were rejected citing lack of basic facilities.

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