Karnataka High Court directs Centre to restore medical college to RGUHS
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The High Court of Karnataka has put aside the Union authorities’s order transferring the city-based Rajarajeswari Medical College and Hospital (RRMCH) to the Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute, a Chennai-based deemed-to-be college.
The courtroom has additionally directed the Centre to restore the medical college to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru.
Justice Krishna S. Dixit handed the order whereas permitting a petition filed by the State authorities difficult the February 14, 2019 notification issued by the Centre together with RRMCH below the Chennai-based deemed college on the suggestions made by the University Grants Commission.
The courtroom additionally dismissed a petition filed by the city-based Moogambigai Charitable and Educational Trust, which was managing RRMCH, difficult the May 16, 2019 order of the State authorities and the June 29 determination of RGUHS of not permitting disaffiliation from the State well being college.
Though the courtroom held that the deemed college couldn’t have admitted college students to undergraduate and postgraduate programs with out securing disaffiliation from RGUHS, it requested the State and RGUHS to defend the scholars admitted by the deemed-to-be college as the scholars weren’t at fault.
The courtroom held that the UGC couldn’t have really helpful to the Centre to embody the college below the deemed college with out contemplating the objections of the State authorities, whose opinion was sought as per the laws.
The State authorities had categorically objected to the inclusion of RRMCH below the Chennai-based deemed-to-be college whereas mentioning that the college was recognised as a Tamil linguistic minority establishment to serve Tamil minority candidates in Karnataka. Noting that the UGC laws allowed for the inclusion of establishments below the identical administration right into a deemed-to-be college, the courtroom stated that RRMCH was managed by Moogambigai Trust, Bengaluru, whereas the deemed-to-be college was managed by the Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute Trust, Chennai, though the 2 had some widespread trustees.
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