The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Allow students to appear for SSLC exam, board told

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Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006

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Allow students to appear for SSLC exam, board told

Staff Reporter

HIGH COURTROUND-UP

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday came to the assistance of seven SSLC students enrolled in a residential school in a village, and directed the Karnataka State Secondary Examination Board (KSSEB) to accept their applications to appear for the 10th standard examination scheduled to begin on March 16.

The students, all from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, are enrolled in a school run by the Siddavanahalli Obanaik Charitable Trust (SOCT) at Bullapura village in Anagodu hobli, Davangere district.

There are only seven students in 10th standard and they had submitted applications to appear for the examination through the headmaster of the school.

The headmaster, it is said, failed to forward the applications. He resigned later.

The new headmaster found that the applications had not been sent and forwarded them to the KSSEB. But the deadline for submitting applications had expired.

As there was no communication from the board, the students and the school approached the court.

They urged the court to direct the board to permit them to appear for the examination.

The matter came up before the court on Tuesday, and Justice N. K. Patil directed the board to permit the students to take the examination and adjourned hearing of the case by two weeks.

Adjourned

A Division Bench headed by Justice Gopala Gowda on Tuesday adjourned to next week appeals by the State Government, the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board (KUWSDB) and KUWSDB Chairman Srinivasa Reddy against a single judge order issuing a writ of quo warranto against Mr. Reddy for illegally holding the post of Managing Director of the board.

PG admissions

The efforts by the State Government to regulate the admissions to postgraduate medical and dental courses offered by deemed universities suffered a setback with the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday allowing Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) to go ahead with its own procedure.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice Manjula Chellur passed an interim order saying that the Government notification regulating the admission of postgraduate courses in private professional colleges, including the deemed universities, was not applicable to MAHE.

The court passed the interim order on a petition filed by the MAHE questioning the government notification issued on December 21, 2005, empowering Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences to conduct entrance exam to fill up postgraduate seats in private medical and dental colleges and the deemed universities.

The notification was contrary to Supreme Court's verdict, MAHE has claimed.

Though the court prima facie accepted MAHE's contention, it made it clear that its interim order would be subject to the final result of the petition.

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