NGO Forum for Fairness in Education (FFE) has sought Bombay High Court (HC) intervention to stop alleged non-compliance with Supreme Court (SC) orders regarding admission to private medical and dental colleges. Thursday, it had sent a notice to medical education secretary Iqbal Singh Chahal for allegedly issuing a corrigendum to exclude private unaided colleges from SC guidelines.
SC had ordered on May 8 last year that if all-India quota seats were vacant in a college, the state government should be informed and the seats allotted strictly on merit. It said "no college shall fill up seats in any other manner".
FFE claimed in its PIL the corrigendum "was in total violation of the apex court order" and sought initiation of contempt proceedings against Chahal. It also demanded managements of colleges that have not complied with the rules should compensate students who could not get admission due to this.
