AlPG 2nd Councelling SC WP(Civil) No.157/2005 2006 03 31

ITEM NO.2 COURT NO.3 SECTION X


S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS


I.A.No.3 in

WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO(s). 157 OF 2005


AMIT GUPTA & ORS. Petitioner(s)


VERSUS


U.O.I. & ANR. Respondent(s)


(With appln(s) for directions)

I.A.1 in I.A.3 (Appln. for impleadment)

I.A.2 in I.A.3 (Appln. for impleadment)

I.A.... in I.A.3 (Appln. for directions/clarification)


Date: 31/03/2006 This Petition was called on for hearing today.




CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.G. BALAKRISHNAN

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE P.P. NAOLEKAR





For Petitioner(s) Mr. Vikram Mehta, Adv.,

Ms. Liz Mathew, Adv.

For Mr. Vikas Mehta,Adv.


For Respondent(s) Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv.

For Mr. Maninder Singh,Adv.


M/S K.L. Mehta & Co. ,Adv


Mr. Gopal Subramanium, ASG

Ms. Sandhya Goswami, Adv.

For Ms. Sushma Suri ,Adv


Mr. Arun Jaitley, Sr. Adv.

Mr. M.C. Dhingra, Adv.


Mr. S. Balakrishnan,Sr. Adv.

Mr. Subramonium Prasad, Ad.


UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R




List on 3-4-2006.


(R.K. DHAWAN) (VEERA VERMA)

COURT MASTER COURT MASTER

Entrance Case on March 27th

As per Hindu in http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/09/stories/2006030920780800.htm

The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to hear on March 27, the Tamil Nadu Government's special leave petition challenging a Madras High Court judgment quashing the legislation scrapping the Common Entrance Test for admission to undergraduate professional courses for 2006-2007.

Appearing for the State before a Bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice A.K. Mathur, senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi sought early listing of the petition, saying the appeal required examination as the Act scrapping the CET had been struck down by the High Court. Three weeks' time was required to hold the CET and the matter might be listed for hearing on March 10.

The Bench declined early listing and said: "Let it come in the normal course for hearing on March 27."

Senior counsel Nalini Chidambaram and K.M. Vijayan, who had appeared in the High Court for the petitioners, were present in the court ready to oppose if the matter was taken up on Wednesday.

Move justified


Assailing the judgment, the petition stated that Tamil Nadu Regulation of Admission in Professional Courses Act, 2006 dispensing with the CET for State Board students, was enacted under Article 15 (5) of the Constitution.

Considering the representations from the public, the Government enacted the law under which State Board students need not appear for the CET.

Instead, students from other Boards such as the CBSE needed to take a CET to bring them on a par with the State Board students.

The High Court had erred in holding that the legislation impinged on the field occupied by the Central law, i.e. MCI and AICTE Regulations.

Further, it failed to appreciate that to establish that the rural students were socially and economically backward, a high-level committee was constituted and found that urban students had advantage in the CET over rural students.

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It must be noted that in Tamil Nadu, only one per cent of the students who appeared for the CET belonged to non-State Board and 99 per cent of the students belonged to the State Board.

Therefore, the High Court ought to have seen that to achieve status on a par with State Board students, it would be possible to conduct a CET for other Board students.

Contending that important questions of law of public importance were involved, the petition sought quashing of the judgment and an interim stay on its operation.

State/Institute wise comparison of stipend and tuition fee#

# Data compiled by MARD http://mard-strike.blogspot.com/, confirmed by personal contact of the residents of the Individual states.
*NA – not available.

Second Highest Fees - Tamil Nadu
Lowest Stipend of Rs 5000 - Tamil Nadu (it is rumoured to have been rised to 8500)
Highest Fees to Stipend Ratio - Tamil Nadu

State/Institute wise comparison of stipend and tuition fees arranged in order of Highest Stipend First^#

	Institute/state	Stipend	Tution fees	Allowances
1	AIIMS	21800	250	2000 book, 5000 thesis
2	Delhi	21000	6000
3	JIPMER Pondicherry	18000	1000	3000 books, 6000 thesis
4	NIMHANS	17700	750
5	BHU	17000	1500
6	Haryana	15500	35,000
7	Jammu Kashmir	15400	1,200
8	Bihar	15000	30000
9	Punjab	14800	30,000
10	Uttar Pradesh	14500	16,000
11	Madhya Pradesh	14,000	35,000
12	Chhattisgadh	11800	0
13	Rajasthan	10500	2000
14	Kerala	10000	18500
15	Goa	9625	4600
16	Maharashtra	8340	18000
17	West Bengal	8250	12000
18	Orissa	7500	6000
19	Gujrat	7000	7000
20	Assam	6950	2500
21	Andhra Pradesh	6400	1500
22	Karnataka	6230	10000
23	Tamilnadu	5000	30000
24	Jharkhand	NA*	NA
25	Himachal Pradesh	NA	NA

# Data compiled by MARD, confirmed by personal contact of the residents of the Individual states.

*NA – not available.

State/Institute wise comparison of stipend and tuition fee arranged in order of Highest Fees First^#

	Institute/state	Stipend	Tuition fees	Allowances
1	Haryana	15500	35,000
2	Madhya Pradesh	14,000	35,000
3	Tamilnadu	9000	30000
4	Bihar	15000	30000
5	Punjab	14800	30,000
6	Kerala	10000	18500
7	Maharashtra	8340	18000
8	Uttar Pradesh	14500	16,000
9	West Bengal	8250	12000
10	Karnataka	6230	10000
11	Gujrat	7000	7000
12	Delhi	21000	6000
13	Orissa	7500	6000
14	Goa	9625	4600
15	Assam	6950	2500
16	Rajasthan	10500	2000
17	BHU	17000	1500
18	Andhra Pradesh	6400	1500
19	Jammu Kashmir	15400	1,200
20	JIPMER Pondicherry	18000	1000	3000 books, 6000 thesis
21	NIMHANS	17700	750
22	AIIMS	21800	250	2000 book, 5000 thesis
23	Chhattisgadh	11800	0
24	Jharkhand	NA*	NA
25	Himachal Pradesh	NA	NA

# Data compiled by MARD, confirmed by personal contact of the residents of the Individual states.

*NA – not available.

State/Institute wise comparison of stipend and tuition fee Ratio arranged in Order of State with high fees and low stipend first^#

	Institute/state	Stipend	Tution fees	Yearly Stipend	Fees to Stipend Ratio	Allowances
1	Tamilnadu	9000	30000	108000	0.277778
2	Madhya Pradesh	14,000	35,000	168000	0.208333
3	Haryana	15500	35,000	186000	0.188172
4	Maharashtra	8340	18000	100080	0.179856
5	Punjab	14800	30,000	177600	0.168919
6	Bihar	15000	30000	180000	0.166667
7	Kerala	10000	18500	120000	0.154167
8	Karnataka	6230	10000	74760	0.133761
9	West Bengal	8250	12000	99000	0.121212
10	Uttar Pradesh	14500	16,000	174000	0.091954
11	Gujrat	7000	7000	84000	0.083333
12	Orissa	7500	6000	90000	0.066667
13	Goa	9625	4600	115500	0.039827
14	Assam	6950	2500	83400	0.029976
15	Delhi	21000	6000	252000	0.02381
16	Andhra Pradesh	6400	1500	76800	0.019531
17	Rajasthan	10500	2000	126000	0.015873
18	BHU	17000	1500	204000	0.007353
19	Jammu Kashmir	15400	1,200	184800	0.006494
20	JIPMER Pondicherry	18000	1000	216000	0.00463	3000 books, 6000 thesis
21	NIMHANS	17700	750	212400	0.003531
22	AIIMS	21800	250	261600	0.000956	2000 book, 5000 thesis
23	Chhattisgadh	11800	0	141600	0
24	Jharkhand	NA*	NA
25	Himachal Pradesh	NA	NA

# Data compiled by MARD, confirmed by personal contact of the residents of the Individual states.

*NA – not available.