{"id":216615,"date":"2009-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mr-k-l-rathod-vs-all-india-council-for-technical-on-3-september-2009"},"modified":"2015-12-26T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T20:02:07","slug":"mr-k-l-rathod-vs-all-india-council-for-technical-on-3-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mr-k-l-rathod-vs-all-india-council-for-technical-on-3-september-2009","title":{"rendered":"Mr. K. L. Rathod vs All India Council For Technical &#8230; on 3 September, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mr. K. L. Rathod vs All India Council For Technical &#8230; on 3 September, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>                   CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                    Club Building, Opposite Ber Sarai Market,\n                      Old JNU Campus, New Delhi - 110067.\n                              Tel: +91-11-26161796\n\n                                                  Decision No. CIC\/SG\/C\/2009\/000590\/4691\n                                                    Complaint No. CIC\/SG\/C\/2009\/000590\n\nComplainant                               : Mr. K. L. Rathod\n                                            108, Sapna Flats, Adarsh School Road,\n                                            Patan, North Gujrat-384265\n\nRespondent                                 : Public Information Officer\n                                            AICTE\n                                            All India Council for Technical Education,\n                                            7th floor, Chandralok Building, Janpath,\n                                            New Delhi\n\nRTI application filed on           :      28\/01\/2009 &amp; 04\/03\/2009 &amp; 24\/03\/2009\nFirst Appeal filed on              :      02\/03\/2009\nComplaint filed on                 :      30\/05\/2009\nPIO replied                        :      02\/07\/2009 after Commission's notice\n\nInformation sought:\n\nRTI Application dated 28\/01\/2009:\n  I.     Can a professor whose appointment is as a professor in commerce become qualified\n         as HOD and professor in AICTE norms following university run MBA Department?\n         (a) Are his qualifications adequate for becoming professor and head of an AICTE\n             norms following university run MBA Department?\n         (b) Can this professor with PhD in commerce qualify to become a guide for Phd\n             aspirants for MBA\/Management candidates?\n  II.    Can a reader whose appointment is as a reader in Management in department of\n         commerce and management become automatically be qualified as reader in AICTE\n         norms following university run MBA Department?\n         (a) Were his qualifications adequate for becoming reader in 1977? Does he qualify\n             even in 2008 without possessing Phd?\n  III.   The flimsy reason, officers in university usually gives is- AICTE Norms were not\n         prevalent for MBA in 1996, is it true? University should have amended the\n         nomenclature in 1997 itself, but it has not done so, why?\n  IV.    Has university faulted in appointing these professor and reader? If it has, now what\n         actions can be taken by AICTE to undo all above wrong?\n\n\nRTI Application dated 04\/03\/2009 &amp; 24\/03\/2009 :\n 1. (a) &amp; (b) Can university give such a misleading ad? Was it not a mistake on part of\n     university? Or was it to absorb a commerce professor for MBA deptt.?\n 2. The posts of professor and reader were meant for SC\/ST candidates. What efforts were\n     made by the university to make these posts open? If none were made, was it not depriving\n     SC\/ST candidates of these posts? If university had deprived them, what action can be\n     taken by AICTE for it?\n   3. Had the university ever started the commerce department? What can state education\n      deptt., AICTE and UGC do about this?\n  4. Provide the documentary evidence about Dr. B. A. Prajapati meeting the required\n      qualification?\n  5. (a) How could Dr. B. A. Prajapati be even qualifying as a MCom. Candidate?\n      (b) If university had absorbed Dr. Prajapati, was this not a Gross Minimmum\n     Qualification Violation by the University? What can AICTE do in regard?\n  6. Dr. Prajapati is serving at MBA since last 12 years, is university not at fault? What can\n      AICTE do about this?\n  7. How can university allow Dr. Prajapati to be a professor and Head of MBA deptt.? What\n      can AICTE do in this regard?\n  8. Can Dr. Prajapati become eligible to be a PhD guide for Management stream? Under\n      which rule of AICTE the stand of university was justified?\n  9. Was the absorbed reader Mr. Nishith Bhatt in 1996, a candidate from industry or a\n      candidate from the academics?\n  10. &amp; 11. Did Mr. Nishith Bhatt qualify as per the norms of an AICTE requirements for the\n      MBA institute?\n  12. Was the professional work of Mr. Nishith ever got approved by the three member\n  committee duly approved by BOG\/CE\/Senate or Academic council as per AICTE norms? If\n  not done, then under which rule of AICTE, the stand of university is accepted?\n  13. Mr. Nishith is not a PhD till today, the university has not stopped his increment ever,\n  under which rule of AICTE the stand of university is accepted?\n  14. (a) Despite of not meeting the qualification norms, the absorbed professor and reader were\n  appointed, had university not erred in this appointment?\n  (b) What action can be taken by AICTE against these candidates as well as against university\n  officers?\n  15. What can AICTE do to force the university to implement nomenclature and faculty ratio?\n  16. What can AICTE do to stop this dual and hypocrite stance of the university?\n  17. By not implementing mandatory post nomenclature and faculty ratio as per AICTE norms\n  since1997:\n      (a) had not the university deprived the incumbent dept. faculties and others of career\n  opportunities?\n      (b) had not the university also deprived the incumbent dept. faculties of huge monetary\n  loss?\n      (c) Is this not a very serious violation of basic fundamental constitutional rights?\n      (d) What step can AICTE take to help the incumbent dept. faculties who were subjected to\n  these wrong?\n\nReply of PIO:\nThe PIO replied on 2nd July 2009 after notice:\n1. The RTI Application dated 28\/01\/2009 of the Complainant was not received in the office of\nPIO.\n2. The RTI Application dated 04\/03\/2009 of the Complainant was received in the office of PIO\nbut it was unsigned and without proper form of application fee, which was returned to the\ncomplainant with the request to send application fee in proper form.\n3. The RTI Application dated 24\/03\/2009 received in RTI cell on 27\/03\/2009 and the same was\nforwarded to the concerned bureau for supply of information. The Bureau had supplied the\ninformation stating that the information sought by the Complainant was not pertaining to\nadvertisement, selection and appointment of the faculty in Management Department of North\nGujarat University, Gujarat, which is under the purview of UGC, New Delhi and North Gujarat\nUniversity and accordingly advised to transfer the application to these offices. The RTI\n Application of the Complainant was transferred to UGC and North Gujarat university vide the\nletter dated 23\/04\/2009.(copy enclosed).\n4. The information was supplied to the Complainant on 23\/04\/2009, thus there was no delay in\nsupplying the information.\n5. It had been observed from the RTI Application dated 23\/03\/2009 that the queries were not\nseeking information as defined under 2(f) of the RTI Act, 2005 but was a complaint against the\nNorth Gujarat University for the appointment of faculty members in their management dept. their\nqualification, nomenclature of various posts and irregularities in their functioning. This did not\ncome under the purview of AICTE, but come under the purview of UGC, accordingly the\napplication was already transferred to UGC.\n\nGrounds for First Appeal:\nThe PIO has not replied.\n\nGrounds for Complaint:\nThe PIO has not replied.\n\nRelevant Facts<\/pre>\n<p> emerging during Hearing:\n<\/p>\n<p>The following were present:\n<\/p>\n<p>Complainant: Mr. K. L. Rathod on Video Conference from NIC Guj-Patan Studio.<br \/>\nRespondent: Absent<br \/>\nMr. Rathod stated that he believe that AICTE is expected to control the activities of all technical<br \/>\ninstitutes and hence should be regulating the work at North Gujarat University. AICTE has stated<br \/>\nearlier and again in their submission to the Commission dated 31 August 2009 that no<br \/>\ninformation on North Gujarat University is available with them. Since it is not under<br \/>\nAdministrative control. Besides as they have pointed out that the queries of the Complainant are<br \/>\nnot seeking information as defined under Section 2(f) of the RTI Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>Decision:\n<\/p>\n<p>The Complaint is dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>What is sought is not information as defined under Section 2(f) of the RTI Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>This decision is announced in open chamber.\n<\/p>\n<p>Notice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.<br \/>\nAny information in compliance with this Order will be provided free of cost as per Section 7(6) of RTI Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                           Shailesh Gandhi<br \/>\n                                                                                 Information Commissioner<br \/>\n                                                                                        03 September 2009<\/p>\n<p>(In any correspondence on this decision, mention the complete decision number.)RA\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Mr. K. L. Rathod vs All India Council For Technical &#8230; on 3 September, 2009 CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION Club Building, Opposite Ber Sarai Market, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi &#8211; 110067. Tel: +91-11-26161796 Decision No. CIC\/SG\/C\/2009\/000590\/4691 Complaint No. CIC\/SG\/C\/2009\/000590 Complainant : Mr. K. L. Rathod 108, Sapna Flats, Adarsh School Road, Patan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-information-commission","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mr. K. L. 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