Saturday 17 June 2017

Vet diplomas from deemed varsities invalid for jobs: HC

Chandigarh, June 16:The Punjab and Haryana High Court has rendered invalid diplomas and certificates of Veterinary Supervisor, Stockman or Stock Assistant offered by four deemed universities through their distance education programme for recruitment in the Veterinary Department.

A Bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Sudip Ahluwalia has ruled in a judgment delivered just before vacation that the power to recognise a diploma or certificate of Veterinary Supervisor, Stockman or Stock Assistant, irrespective of the nomenclature for providing ‘Minor Veterinary Services’, is exclusively vested in the state government except where such power has been exercised by the Veterinary Council of India.
Petitioner Kuldeep and others, who had obtained their certificates from four deemed universities–Gandhi Vidya Mandir, Sardar Shahar, Rajasthan; Janardhan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur; Vinayak Mission Research Foundation, Salem; and Allahabad Agriculture Institute Deemed University, Allahabad, had filed a petition challenging the Haryana Veterinary Headquarters and Field (Group C) Service Rules 1999 as amended in 2011, which rendered them ineligible for the posts of Veterinary Livestock Development Assistant (VLDA).
The rules provide that the candidate must be matriculate from a recognised board or a university with a two-year diploma from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University (now, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary Sciences), HIsar, or any other institution recognised/ approved by the state government.
The names of the above four deemed universities did not appear in the list of 30 universities mentioned in the appendix attached with the rules as recognised/ approved by the state government.
The case of the petitioners was that institutions from where they obtained diplomas were “deemed universities” under Section 3 of the University Grant Commission Act 1956 and the programmes imparted by them through the distance education mode were approved by the Distance Education Council.
The Additional Advocate General, appearing for the state government, informed the court that all these deemed universities were operating in Haryana through their training centres set up in different parts of the state.
He said an expert committee constituted to randomly inspect these institutions had found that these were running in one or two rooms where neither any training centre nor any facility to impart the requisite training was found.
Counsel for the Veterinary Council of India referred to the stand taken by the council in some other cases in the past where it categorically said it did not recognise any of the certificates mentioned by the petitioners.
The High Court dismissed the petition, justifying the state government’s decision to hold candidates having diploma and certificate from these deemed universities ineligible for the posts of VLDA.

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