UGC norms for NET declared illegal by Kerala High Court
By PTI - KOCHI
17th December 2012 08:17 PM
The Kerala High court today declared
as illegal the new norms fixed by UGC for the National
Eligiblity Test (NET) for college and university lectureship.
"The power of UGC ought to have been excercised in a
proper, fair and reasonable manner," Justice T R Ramachandran
Nair held while allowing a batch of petitions challenging the
new norms.
The court held that fixing of higher aggregate marks for
three categories, that too just before the announcements of
results, cannot be justified as the same was "not supportable
by law".
It also declared that all those who have obtained minimum
marks prescribed in the notification have cleared NET and
appropriate follow up action be taken to issue certificates to
them within one month.
By changing the standards at the final stage and just
before declaration of results, "it can be definitely be seen
that it affected adversely the expectations of a large number
of candidates", the court said.
As per the new norms, candidates in general category have
to score aggregate of 65 per cent in all three NET papers to
be eligible for college and university lectureship while OBC
candidates need to score 60 per cent and SC/ST candidates 55
per cent.
Previous norms had stipulated that the general category
had to get 40 per cent in Paper I and Paper II and 50 per cent
in Paper III. In case of OBC, SC/ST students, the qualifying
percentage was 35, 35, 45 and 35, 35, 40 in all three papers.
The declaration of new norms had been opposed by students
who appeared in the examination in June this year.
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Comments(53)
yeh bahut hi acha decision hai jisse candidates me ek nai jaan aa gai hai thanks kerala high court for real judjement.
Posted by manoj kumar srivastava at 12/19/2012 16:01 Reply to this Report abuse
This is a very good judgement given by kerea highcourt. All of us shoud be benifited by the court's order. Hope all qualified candidate like me should get justice by court's order
Posted by Biplab Bhatta at 12/20/2012 14:21 Reply to this Report abuse
thanks.a great decison in the favour of natural law
Posted by dr.devendra singh at 12/20/2012 16:35 Reply to this Report abuse
Complaint against UGC Net Examination Supplementary Result We accept the decisions and abide by the norms and condition by the UGC NET Examination at the same time when I see at the result I feel it is unbalanced and I feel justice is not done to the some of the students belonging to particular subject and Category. I suspect and doubt the criteria of supplementary result. While UGC had formed a criteria for passing at the first list why this was not maintained? If it has changed the criteria why it did not think of all the students belonging to different subjects and category? And what are the minimum and maximum criteria of supplementary result? If it has changed its own criteria and measure of declaration of the result it is clear that the criteria of the result of first list was wrong. It means whole system of Net examination result seems to be fake and unfair. If Brajesh Singh can be declared pass obtaining 55.56 in Philosophy belonging to general category, why Pascal Beck Roll. N
Posted by Pascal Beck at 12/20/2012 16:58 Reply to this Report abuse
[!User Complaint!] i highly appreciated the decision of honorable court,and hope for those who want to develop their career in education sector. If reason to change the qualifying marks was quality of paper. then i why UGC..such paper, they have a right to prepare..tough paper..when most of the people clear the min qualification then they change it.
Posted by Dr.Mallikarjuna K. at 01/01/2013 20:17 Reply to this Report abuse
i highly appreciated the decision of honorable court,and hope for those who want to develop their career in education sector. If reason to change the qualifying marks was quality of paper..then i why UGC..such paper, they have a right to prepare..tough paper..when most of the people clear th min qualification then they change it ....why...
Posted by ashok at 12/20/2012 19:36 Reply to this Report abuse