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Wednesday, Sep 29, 2004

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R.V. College challenges MBA, MCA tentative fees

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, SEPT. 28. A Bangalore-based private professional college has challenged a notification of the Fee Fixation Committee fixing tentative fees for postgraduate (PG) courses in Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA).

R.V. College, in its petition on Tuesday, said it had sought Rs. 1.88 lakhs as course fee (of this, the tuition fee is Rs. 1.70 lakhs) for MBA for 2004-05 and Rs. 1.16 lakhs (tuition fee Rs. 1 lakh) for MCA. The college placed the fee structure before the fee committee now headed by the retired High Court judge, Rangavittalachar.

On June 4, the committee sent a notice to all unaided business schools fixing a tentative fee structure for MBA courses. Without considering the materials placed by R.V. College, the committee fixed the fee for MBA and MCA courses at Rs. 45,000 a year for students admitted under the government and management quotas. The college said the tentative fee structure went against the Supreme Court judgment in the T.M.A. Pai case. It said the fee could be fixed only after the committee went through the materials placed by the college. It could fix the fee only on the basis of a figure projected by the college. The college urged the court to quash the notice on the tentative fee and allow it to fix the fee structure it had proposed.

A Division Bench comprising Justice B.Padmaraj and Justice H. Billappa ordered issue of notices to the Fee Fixation Committee, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) and other respondents and adjourned hearing of the case for two weeks.

Students' plea dismissed

A Division Bench comprising Justice B. Padmaraj and H. Billappa dismissed the appeals filed by several non-Karnataka students challenging the dismissal of their interim prayer by a single judge.

Petition withdrawn

Four of the five first-year MBBS students of Siddhartha Medical College, Tumkur, who had challenged their discharge from the course, withdrew their petition on Tuesday. The students, Potluri Meghana, Sajiv K. Rajashekaran, Swarupjit Ghata, Prathiba H. and Joshua Vijay, had challenged their discharge. They were among the 13 whose admission had been annulled by the college after an agreement was reached on the seat matrix.

When the case came up for hearing today, the students barring Vijay, said they wanted to withdraw their petitions as they had secured admission in other colleges.

The court allowed it.

The Government then filed a statement of objections. It said it was the responsibility of the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) to re-allot and accommodate students whose admissions had been cancelled after the consensus on the seat matrix was reached.

It said such candidates had been admitted in excess of the 40 per cent of the seats under the management quota. Besides, the colleges on September 9 agreed to fill vacant seats only through the Common Entrance Test (CET) counselling.

Panel chief quits

A Division Bench comprising Justice B.Padmaraj and Justice H. Billappa on Monday ordered that the affairs of the Ananda Social and Educational Trust be handed over to five founder-trustees. The Bench passed the order after the Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Venkatesh Murthy, appointed by the High Court to look into the affairs of the trust, resigned. Mr. Murthy had filed an application wanting to know to whom he could hand over charge. The Bench ordered Mr. Murthy to hand over charge to M.K. Kempa Siddaiah, P.L. Nanjunda Swamy, S. Gurappaji and A.D. Kuberappa, all founder-trustees of the trust.

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