Taking the war over autonomy to the court, the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) and the Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) today decided to file writ petitions in the Supreme Court, challenging the recent guidelines on post-graduate management diploma (PGDM) courses by the technical education regulator.
AIMS and EPSI will file separate writ petitions by February 14. “We have decided to take a legal action and file petition in the Supreme Court challenging the notifications of AICTE,” said H Chaturvedi, alternate president, EPSI, and director, Birla Institute of Management and Technology.
The B-schools, however, made it clear that if they did not get a stay order they would not accept students qualifying through state-level interviews and group discussions.
Among key suggestions of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a model curriculum for all PGDM programmes should be issued by the council, and admissions to PGDM programmes must be conducted by state governments through a competent authority, among others. Representatives from over 200 B-schools today gathered in the national capital to attend a national convention called by EPSI and AIMS.
“The convention resolved that AICTE’s notification clearly violates landmark judgments of the Supreme Court in TMA Pai and P A Inamdar cases which defined the autonomy of self-finance PGDM institutes,” Chaturvedi added.
