HC dismisses writs on LU BEd entrance result

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court dismissed a bunch of writ petitions seeking direction for the Lucknow University to declare the result of the candidates who appeared in the BEd entrance examination-2010 and had below 50% marks in graduation/postgraduation.


Hearing the petitions, Justice AP Sahi observed that the statutory provisions in the shape of National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE) Regulations 2009 clearly lay down a minimum of 50% marks at the qualifying level and any wrong mention in the brochure will not confer any right or any legitimate expectation which can be founded on some right of the petitioners to claim admission without having obtained a minimum of 50% marks.
Earlier, it was argued on behalf of petitioners that in the advertisement issued by the Lucknow University, the minimum marks required were only 45% and all such candidates had also been issued admit cards for the entrance. Moreover, when such candidates were restrained by the university authorities, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had directed the university to permit all such candidates to appear in the said examination. As such, the decision of the university not to declare their result is arbitrary, the petitioners argued.

Representing the state government, standing counsel pointed out that prior to holding of the BEd entrance, earlier scheduled to be held on May 5, the state government had issued a notification on April 30 enhancing the minimum eligibility criterion from 45% to 50% in consonance with the NCTE regulations.
Appearing on behalf of NCTE, R A Akhtar argued that NCTE was the sole regulatory authority in the country to regulate the teachers' education courses which had fixed minimum 50% marks in graduation/postgraduation for BEd course by means of Regulations 2009 and no person can be permitted to violate these statutory regulations.

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