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Bangalore, May 15: Thousands of students who have been promoted to II PUC this year and want to change their college can heave a big sigh of relief. The Karnataka high court on Thursday stayed the application of the circular issued by the Pre-University Education department as far as students who have joined I PUC in 2008-09 are concerned.
However, any affidavit filed by parents and students who have joined I PUC in 2009-10 will be subject to the final decision of the court, vacation judge A N Venugopala Gowda said.
The circular prohibits a student who joined PUC in 2009-2010 academic year from shifting from one college to another when they move into second year in 2010-2011. But it doesn’t cover students who joined PUC in 2008-09 and go to II PUC this year.
When the PU department officials admitted in the court that they were implementing the circular from this academic year itself and that there were about 10,000 applications seeking change of college, the HC didn’t appreciate their contention.
“How can you prohibit like that? If a college has zero result, how can you prevent a student from seeking change of college to get better results?” the judge asked the PU officials.
Apart from prohibiting change of college for II PUC, the circular also insists the educational institutions obtain an affidavit from parents and students who are admitted for first year PUC in 2009-2010 that they will not seek change of college in the second year.
“In the absence of any notice to the members of the petitioner association and in total disregard to the rule of law and principles of natural justice, this circular has been brought out,” G R Mohan, counsel for the petitioner Karnataka state minorities’ educational institutions managements federation, told the court.
The PU department officials say that due to computerization of records of every student at the time of admission to I PU by way of OMR sheets, change of colleges in II PU will add problems to the educational, examination and administrative business of the department.