A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court comprising Justice C. Kodanda Ram and Justice Balayogi on Thursday suspended the operation of the order of the Telangana government which had increased the fee for PG medical courses. This stay will be in operation for four weeks.
The bench was granting this interim order in a PIL filed by Health Care Reform Society and Osmania Junior Doctors Association.
The petitioners brought to the notice of the court that the entrance was conducted in December and now on May 9 the GO was issued. The court was told that the fee for PG medical seat under management quota was ₹5.80 lakh and now it was ₹24.20 lakh.
The fee structure for other category seats was also changed. This was more that 600 per cent in many cases. The petitioners said that the mandatory requirement of consulting the AFRC which is headed by retired High Court judge and which fixes the fee structure in professional colleges was not followed. The bench stayed the operation of this GO for four weeks and then asked the petitioner to implead all the private medical colleges offering PG medical courses.
Pump house work
A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court comprising Justice C. Kodanda Ram and Justice Balayogi on Thursday expressed disinclination to interfere with the order of single judge who had refused to stay the works pertaining to pump house for the Sundilla barrage near Gowliwada village of Antargaon mandal, Pedapally district. The bench was admitting the writ appeal filed by Gudi Venkata Reddy and others. The single judge took into consideration the fact that the compensation was deposited as per the Act 30 of 2013 and in fact most of the farmers had accepted the acquisition. The bench said that balance of convenience and question of irreparable loss and injury were not in favour of appellant farmers.
The bench reminded that the courts had to bear in mind the escalation of costs of projects while granting interim orders. The bench also took note of the fact that the works were on 241 acres and the lands of petitioners were on a very small extent. The bench declared that the issue of not obtaining environmental clearance and other statutory permissions was not being adjudicated in this case now. The case would be listed after the summer vacation along with other cases filed on the similar issues.
