Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 24: In a landmark judgment, High Court has directed Baba Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences to pay Rs 50,000 to all the students who were admitted from 2017 onwards as damages.
While dismissing the petition filed by the institute, Justice Rajesh Bindal said that in case they (students) find the damages to be insufficient, they shall be entitled to avail any appropriate remedy for claiming any amount of damages from the petitioner-institute.
“In addition to this amount, the entire fee or any charges received by the petitioner from the students shall be refundable to them and needful shall be done within two months from the date of receipt of copy of the order”, High Court further directed.
The petitioner had approached the court praying for extension of the No Objection Certificate already granted to him for conducting Para Medical Training Courses. Further direction was sought to the respondents to accept the registration/examination forms of the students studying in the petitioner’s institute to enable them to take examination.
After hearing Advocate Ankush Manhas for the petitioner whereas Senior AAG HA Siddqui for the State, Justice Bindal observed, “the authority including the Paramedical Council need to examine the issue as to why the list of approved institutes imparting para-medical education cannot be published in the newspaper well before the start of admissions for any session so as to apprise the prospective candidates and ensure that they are not cheated in the process”.
“Further the process of admission to all the institutes can also be streamlined by authorizing one single agency so that only those institutes are allowed to participate which are recognized and admission should not be permitted to be made by the institutes at their own level”, Justice Bindal said, adding “we are living in the era of technology and the same should be utilized in the present process as well”.
Justice Bindal further said, “there should be web portal of the Paramedical Council or the agency conducting the examination having the list of all the approved Institutes. Within certain specified time, the institutes should be duty bond to upload the data of the admissions made in their respective colleges for approval by the Council”, adding “in the absence thereof, the admissions may not be regularized”.
Justice Bindal further observed, “it is the responsibility of the State and/or the regulatory bodies constituted under the relevant statutes or otherwise to monitor quality of education imparted by any private or Government institute”, adding “the idea is to bring best product out, which could serve the society in the field in which they have been educated and stay ahead in the competitive market. But what is evident from the facts of the present case is that this responsibility is not being discharged by the persons at the helm of affairs”.
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