NCTE fined Rs 10 lakh for giving conditional recognition to college, will be recovered from responsible officer.
NCTE
fined Rs 10 lakh for giving conditional recognition to college, will be
recovered from responsible officer.
The Punjab-Haryana
High Court has imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTI) for giving
conditional recognition despite the Supreme
Court's stay. The High Court identified the responsible officer for this
and ordered to recover this amount from him.
Along with this, the High Court also imposed a
fine of Rs 10 lakh on the B.Ed. college and said that it also did not remove
the discrepancies. Both have been directed to deposit this amount in the PGI
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The High Court said that in this case, NCTI left no stone unturned in helping
the college. The students were allowed admission by the interim order of the
court and NCTI did not make any attempt to get the interim order revoked. NCTI
did not even inform the court about the discrepancies. The regional director
was also present in the High Court in October last year. Despite this, no work
was done in this direction. The court said that we do not want the future of
the students to be spoiled. In such a situation, an order was also issued to
issue degrees to the students who got admission through the interim order of
2022.
All
colleges of Haryana-Punjab with conditional recognition are illegal.
During the hearing of this case, the High Court
had said that many such cases have come to its notice where colleges are being
given conditional recognition and permission to do B.Ed. All the colleges with
such recognition are illegal which are running rampantly in Haryana and Punjab. The court had said
that NCTI is responsible for this and a criminal case should be filed against
them.
The High Court had ordered the Regional Director of NCTI to remain
present. On the orders of the court, Regional
Director Mukesh Kumar appeared in the High Court in October last year and
assured the court that a committee would be constituted to inspect the colleges
of Haryana and Punjab under the
guidelines issued by the Supreme Court
in the Adarsh Shiksha Mahavidyalaya
case. This committee will inspect the colleges and take action against the
colleges not meeting the standards. Also, a solution will be found immediately
by meeting the Haryana and Punjab
government regarding the issue of their recognition. The matter was pending
in the High Court since then.
Hundreds
of B.Ed colleges face the threat of action.
There are 350 B.Ed colleges in Haryana and 176 in Punjab and the High Court has already commented that most of the colleges are running with conditional recognition. Now after the High Court's order to take action against NCTI, the sword of action is hanging over these colleges running with temporary recognition.
