CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.1519 OF 2010 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 Babe Ke Education Charitable Trust (Regd.), Vill Daudhar, District Moga and another .....Petitioners VERSUS State of Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. R. A. Ram, Sr.Advocate with Mr. Arjun Atma Ram, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms. Monica Chhibber Sharma, DAG, Punjab, for the State. Mr. Munish Jolly, Advocate, for respondent No.2. Mr. K. S. Dadwal, Advocate, for respondent No.3. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner-Institution has filed this writ petition seeking direction to grant permission to the enhanced intake for G.N.M CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.1519 OF 2010 :{ 2 }: Course from 60 to 100 seats. The facts, noticed in brief, are that no objection certificate to start G.N.M Midwife 3-1/2 year diploma course was issued to the petitioner-Institution with the intake capacity of 60 seats on 14/15th December, 2006. On 12.3.2007, Indian Nursing Council issued regulation required to be followed by the School/Institution of Nursing. On 10.9.2007, the petitioner Institution was inspected by team of Punjab Nurses Registration Council. On 6.2.2008, the petitioner-Institution was granted provisional recognition for G.N.M. Course for the academic Sessions 208-09 with intake capacity of 60 seats. On 12.12.2007, the petitioner Institution applied for enhancement of seats from 60 to 100 for G.N.M. Course. The State issued no objection certificate on 9.1.2008. The petitioner-Institution applied to Indian Nursing Council on 9.10.2008. Inspection was conducted by INC on 17.1.2009. The petitioner applied for affiliation for extension for the academic Sessions 2009-2010 to Punjab Nursing Registration Council (for short, “PNRC”). The INC gave permission to the petitioner Institution on 4.3.2009 for intake capacity of 60 seats, which was suitable for one year or till the next inspection. PNRC then gave provisional affiliation for intake of 60 seats to the petitioner-Institution for the academic Sessions 2009-2010. Copy of inspection report carried out on 17.1.2009 was supplied to the petitioner only on 24.11.2009 that too after approaching Central Information Commission, New Delhi. After the inspection report, the permission was granted only for 60 seats in response to request for enhancing the intake capacity. The petitioner Institution therefore, filed this writ petition to CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.1519 OF 2010 :{ 3 }: impugn this action of the respondents. Objections have now been raised in the reply filed by the INC to say that the petitioner Institution is deficient in respect of teaching faculty on the ground that there are only 13 teachers and hence, the stipulation of 1 : 10 teacher student ratio is not complied with. Learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner will seriously dispute this assertion made in the reply and would point out that for intake of 100 students, 13 teachers would satisfy the condition of 1:10 and this objection, thus, is totally misconceived. The other objection raised is in regard to the bed strength of the hospital. As per the reply, the total bed strength in the hospital comes to 360 beds. The counsel for the petitioner, however, would point out that the petitioner Institution is having 300 bedded parent hospital and 400 bedded affiliated hospital, which can clearly be found from the inspection report. The objection regarding the build up area being deficient is also factually inaccurate inasmuch as the inspection report itself would show that the covered area is more than required by the norms. Accordingly, the objections raised by the respondent INC are not borne out from the report of inspection carried out by the INC and as such the contention raised in the reply can not be accepted. Accordingly, the prayer made in the writ petition deserves to be allowed. Directions, therefore, are issued to respondent No.2- INC to reconsider for grant of the prayer for enhancing the intake to the petitioner-Institution to 100 seats. In the meantime, the petitioner-Institution is permitted to admit the students as per the enhanced intake of 100 seats. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.1519 OF 2010 :{ 4 }: Copy of the order be given under the signatures of the Special Secretary of this Court. September 21, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE