Category: Administrative Lex

The defence of sovereign immunity being inapplicable, and alien to the concept of guarantee of fundamental rights, there can be no question of such a defence being available in the constitutional remedy.

The defence of sovereign immunity being inapplicable, and alien to the concept of guarantee of fundamental rights, there can be no question of such a defence being available in the constitutional remedy.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has frequently pulled up statutory bodies for not pro-actively disclosing authenticated orders on their websites, arguing that Section 11 authentication should be the start of the communication process, not the end.

The UGC’s lack of professional, independent administrative staff, in influence of the slow-moving Government Rule machinery has hindered its ability to regulate a 21st-century education market.

The UGC’s lack of professional, independent administrative staff, in influence of the slow-moving Government Rule machinery has hindered its ability to regulate a 21st-century education market.

An associated person might be a professor from a private university giving advice on regulations that affect their own institution.

The Act does not define inability or incapacity. This ambiguity allows the Central Government to potentially remove a Chairman or Vice-Chairman by declaring them unable to function without a formal inquiry or clear medical/legal standards.

The deeming fiction ensures that a "Deemed University" enjoys the same legal standing and privileges as any regular university established by an Act of Parliament or a State Legislature.

Article 29(1) confers a fundamental right upon a section of citizens residing in India or any part thereof having a distinct language, script or culture of its own to conserve the same. Clause (2) of Article 29 prohibits a denial of admission to educational institutions maintained by the State Or receiving aid out of State funds on the ground only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them.

Statute 209 replaced English with Gujarati/Hindi for exams/instruction by 1955–56 but allowed temporary English use until 1961. The anomaly persisted: students could write exams in English without English-medium instruction, leading to mismatched learning and assessment, causing academic challenges.