“Public-private partnership in imparting education will augur well for citizens and also for the cause of social justice,” Justice Anitha Sumanth of the Madras High Court has said while holding that a constituent medical college of a private university in the State need not be affiliated with Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University.
Justice Anita Sumanth rejected the stand taken by Directorate of Medical Education (DME) that every medical/dental college in the State ought to be affiliated with Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University to be eligible to fill up the seats through common counselling conducted by the directorate.
The judge agreed with senior counsel Vijay Narayan that such a stand was against the Tamil Nadu Private Universities Act of 2019 under which trusts, societies and not-for-profit companies could establish private universities to provide world class education in all disciplines including engineering and medicine.
