Maha pvt unaided medical colleges can’t admit outside students this year

MUMBAI: Private unaided, including minority, medical and dental colleges across the state cannot admit students from outside the state at least for the academic

MUMBAI: Private unaided, including minority, medical and dental colleges across the state cannot admit students from outside the state at least for the academic year 2016-17, except for their institutional quota of 15 % seats.

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The Bombay high court refused to grant interim relief on petitions challenging the rules framed by the state last year, making domicile certificate mandatory for students seeking admission, thus indirectly prohibiting these colleges from admitting students from outside.

A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and justice MS Sonak refused to stay the rules framed under provisions of the Maharashtra Unaided Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions and Fees) Act, 2015, in view of the settled legal position that a legislative provision should not be stayed ordinarily, and a stay could be granted only in exceptional circumstances. The bench also vacated earlier orders restraining the Directorate of Medical Education and Research from publishing the select lists, thus paving the way for completing the process to admit students in private unaided medical and dental colleges in the state.

One of the petitions filed by Mahatma Gandhi Vidya Mandir Trust, which runs a dental college at Nashik, specifically challenged the rule that made domicile certificate mandatory to seek admission to private unaided medical and dental colleges in Maharashtra and thus indirectly prohibiting students from other states getting admissions in these institutes.

Another petition was filed by PA Inamdar, chairman of an education trust, which runs a minority unaided dental college at Pune. Contending that the fundamental right of unaided minority professional institutions to admit students of their choice has been recognised by the Supreme Court time and again, he had sought direction from the government to relax the mandatory condition of domicile certificate in case of their dental college and allow them to fill in all the seats at the institution level by conducting their own common admission process.