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Plea against Infopark transfer to DIC dismissed

Staff Reporter

HIGH COURTROUND-UP

KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed, at the admission stage itself, the writ petition seeking to restrain the State Government from transferring Infopark Kochi,(IPK) to the Dubai Internet City (DIC) or any other person. The petition was filed by N. Venugopal, general secretary, National Congress (Indira).

Dismissing the petition, the Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice Rajeev Gupta and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan observed that the averments in the writ petition was based on newspaper reports. That apart, the project was still at the stage of negotiation and nothing had been finalised so far. So, the court could not entertain the petition.

The petition also sought a direction to the State Government to produce the terms and conditions agreed between the Government and the DIC for the Smart City project. The petitioner said that the Government had no authority to sell an autonomous body like IPK, which has been successfully working, to a single private party from abroad. IPK was not a loss-making public sector undertaking (PSU). The petitioner alleged that DIC's demand that IT companies be not allowed to come up between Alappuzha and Kozhikode was aimed at monopolising the IT sector facilities available in Kochi. If this was allowed to happen, Smart City would sound the death knell of Kerala's IT dreams.

Campus recruitment

A Bench comprising the Chief Justice Rajeev Gupta and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan upheld the order issued in 2000 allowing the public sector units to appoint personnel through campus recruitment.

The court made the ruling while dismissing a petition filed by the Federation of Central Government SC/ST Employees (Kerala), Kochin Refineries Limited(KRL) unit challenging the campus recruitment conducted by the KRL.

Dismissing the petition, the Judges said that the campus recruitment was a method adopted to recruit personnel from campuses even before a candidate passed out of the colleges. The court observed that the areas, which were reserved exclusively for the State sector, had now opened up to the private sector following liberalisation. So, in selected areas where the public sector units had to compete with other multinational and private companies in the present economic scenario, methods like campus recruitment could be resorted to.

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