Chennai, Jul 17 (PTI): The Maritime Institutes Association has filed petition in the Madras High Court, seeking a CBI probe into affairs of the Indian Maritime University for allegedly collecting exorbitant fee by at least 10 private nautical science institutes.
In a public interest petition, the Association also wanted appropriate action against the Vice chancellor and disaffiliation of the institutions which had collected excess fee, allegedly running into several lakhs of Rupees per head.
The first bench,comprising Chief Justice M Yusuf Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam issued notices to the university and the institutes, besides making it clear that admissions in these institutes would be subject to outcome of the PIL.
The Association said a national-level common entrance test for admission to the one-year diploma course was held on June 21, 2009 and the results were declared six days later.
Though there were 26 approved institutes offering this course while they were under the control of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, this time around only 18 units were named in the website.
The association had earlier approached the court, alleging that the university had permitted the other eight units to admit students without participating in the test and seeking admission to marine engineering courses only on basis of entrance examination marks. The petition is still pending.
The PIL further named nine institutes in Mahrarashtra, Andhra Pradesh,Kerala and New Delhi which were collecting tuition fees ranging from Rs 2.25 lakh to Rs 4.71 lakh for the B.Sc (Nautical Science) course, in violation of all norms.
It also accused the vice-chancellor of granting affiliation to a new maritime academy which was not previously approved by the Director General of Shipping.
Despite clear-cut provisions empowering the university to act against erring institutes and availability of evidence, it has not done anything,the petition said and prayed that IMU be restrained from allotting any seats to the nautical science courses for the coming academic year. - Agencies
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