The Andhra Pradesh High Court had on Wednesday suspended G.O. Ms No. 24 related to fixation of fee structure for the block period 2023-24 to 2025-26 issued by the Higher Education Department while hearing a petition filed by the aggrieved private unaided degree colleges.
These colleges, numbering more than 150, challenged the impugned G.O. through which permission to participate in the online counselling for admissions for the said period had been withheld by the Higher Education Department on the ground that they (the petitioner-colleges) made less than 25% admissions than the sanctioned intake, purportedly as per the recommendations of the A.P. Higher Education Regulatory & Monitoring Commission.
The petitioners contended that non-determination of the fee structure on the same ground as above and not allowing them to take part in the counselling scheduled to start from July 20 was violative of Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution, AP Educational Institutions (Regulations of Admissions and Prohibition of Capitation Fee) Act of 1983, and the AP Higher Education Monitoring and Regulatory Commission Act and Rules.
