Kochi: Dealing a severe blow to the errant players in the self-financing education sector, the Kerala High Court on Friday asked the Admission Supervisory Committee to scrutinise the records of all the applicants at Karuna Medical College, Palakkad, and Kannur Medical College, Kannur, for admission to the first year MBBS course and weed out the candidates who applied through modes other than online. The court, which made online submission of applications mandatory, also imposed a cost of '1 lakh on the colleges for the discrepancies in the admission process.
Chastising the institutions for the lapses which “spoiled much time of this court as well, besides that of the Committee and the governmental authorities, including the commissioner”, the court ordered them to produce audited balance sheet and relevant records, as called for by the Committee, for regulating the fees. A division bench comprising Justice P.R. Ramachandra Menon and Justice P. Somarajan directed all institutions to incorporate in the prospectus all particulars of applications which will be submitted only 'online'.
The particulars include schedule of dates in respect of the various steps/procedures in connection with the admission, particulars of the defects noted, if any; date enabling the students to rectify the defects, particulars of rejection of application, if any, with reasons; particulars of the list of admitted students in the different rounds of allotment; 'waiting list' of the candidates on inter se merit to be considered for spot admission in respect of the vacancies, if any; on or before the cut-off date etc.
The details should be simultaneously published on the website of the Committee as well as the institutions. The two colleges had not entered into an agreement with the government and had instead chosen to fill up all the 100 seats from the list of candidates who had cleared NEET (National Entrance cum Eligibility Test) after getting the prospectus approved by the Committee. The institutions later approached the court against the committee which intervened in the process seeing that they had not complied with various requirements.
