Kerala govt to move SC as HC dismisses plea on SFS colleges

The Kerala Government would move the Supreme Court against the High Court order directing the self-financing professional colleges to follow the admission pattern and fee structure of the previous year and not the recently-enacted controversial law.

"We enacted the law to usher in social justice in the state and to protect merit. We wanted to save students from hefty capitation fees imposed by private college managements," Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan told reporters reacting to the High Court order.

Since the High Court has permitted the self-financing professional college managements to conduct admissions to management quota seats as was done last year, the government will have to knock the doors of the apex Court, he said here.

He said the government's image has not taken a beating after the High Court order as the LDF had fulfilled one of its major commitments to the people of the state by enacting the "landmark legislation." The Kerala Assembly had on June 30 passed the legislation seeking to regulate admissions, fee structures and minority status of self-financing professional colleges, which kicked up a storm with private college managements opposing it tooth and nail and even approaching the Supreme Court.

The government had filed an appeal after a Single Bench of the High Court earlier this month directed the professional colleges to follow the admission pattern and fee structure of last year.

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