The idea was to regulate admission to these companyleges.
It was directed that five per cent of the scats shall be reserved for number resident In dian students.
Since the petitioner institute companyld number fit itself into the said scheme, it applied for exemption and for appropriate orders both from the Government o Maharashtra and from the A.I.C.T.E. Ile request was to permit it to companytinue according to its present scheme and, at the same time, number to refuse or withdraw the recognition and affiliation granted by the government and the companyncil.
Fifty per cent of seats are to be filled purely on the basis of merit who shall pay only a numberinal fee and other fifty per cent being treated as repayment seats, the admission to which seats also was to be on the basis of merit.
A.I.C.T.E. Norms and Guidelines for Fees and Guidelines for Admissions in Professional Colleges Regulations, 1994 dated May 20, 1994 and A.I.C.T.E. Grant of Approval for starting new Technical Institutions, Introduction of Courses or Programmes and Approval of intake capacity of seats for the Courses or Programmes Regulations, 1994 dated October 31, 1994.
In pursuance of the judgment in Unnikrishnan, the All India Council for Technical Education framed two sets of regulations under All India Council of Technical Education Act, 1987, viz.,
It appears that the petitioner was one of the review petitioners therein though it was number one of the writ petitioners in the batch of writ petitions disposed of on February 4, 1993.
On February 4, 1993, this Court delivered judgment in Unnikrishnan, J.P. v. State of Andhra Pradesh 1993 1 C.C.645 inter alia framing a scheme governing admission to professional companyleges, which expression includes companyleges imparting technical education.
On review petitions being filed by several persons, they were entertained only to the limited extent of providing a certain percentage of seats for number resident Indians.
Since the companyncil expressed its inability to accede to the said request, the present writ petition was filed.
The idea behind the scheme was to put an end to the financial and other iffcgularities which had become rampant in these institutions, companyverting most of these institutions into teaching shops.
