HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court dismissed the petitions of several private engineering colleges which had requested directions to the state government to permit them to increase the intake of students in the BTech courses for the coming academic year.
Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy was dealing with 27 batch petitions filed by engineering colleges like Aurora, Spoorthy, Marri Laxma Reddy and St Peters, among others, complaining that the state government was not according permission for introduction of new courses or increase or reduction of intake or merger or closure of courses.
Some of the petitioners argued before the court that the government was granting permission to some of the colleges and denying the same to some others with a clear cut political agenda. They argued that the state could only prescribe additional standards but cannot refuse permissions, which was the prerogative of JNTUH and AICTE.
The judge observed that the petitioner colleges failed to establish malfeasance and misfeasance acts on the state government, which is conferred with the power to maintain parity among institutions and curb unhealthy competition among the educational institutions.
Hence, the court was not inclined to interfere with the state government orders.
