Some pvt colleges allure students with misleading ads: NCDRC
Some private colleges allure students with
misleading advertisements, the apex consumer commission said, asking a
Rajasthan-based pharmacy institute to pay Rs 50,000 as
compensation to a student for admitting him to an unrecognised course and
awarding an invalid degree. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC)
has asked the Goyanka College of Pharmacy in Rajasthan to refund the fees paid by Anil Kumar Kumawat and asked it to pay Rs
5,000 as legal cost apart from the compensation. "It is quite often
observed in our country that some of the professional institutes run by private
organisations allure students by misleading advertisements and promises and
collect huge fees or donations. "Most of the aspirants are kept in dark
about the legality of the course," the bench comprising presiding member B
C Gupta and member S M Kantikar said. While pointing out that a few institutes
even admit the students without proper infrastructure and statutory
permissions, the commission said innocent students become victim of such
colorful assurances and take admission in the hope of bright future. It also
termed the conduct of the institute as an unfair trade practice. "In the
instant case, the institute was not recognised by the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI).
The complainant, a young budding graduate, even
though, after completion of the course and acquiring B.Pharmacy degree, was refused (job) by two pharmaceutical companies only because of
non-recognition of the degree by the PCI. "Thus, in our view, it was
unfair trade practice by the institute," the bench said. According to the
complaint, Kumawat, a resident of Sikar district, had joined the college in
2006-07 batch after depositing Rs 36,000 and a hostel fee of Rs 24,000. He
completed the course in 2009-10 and got a job in a pharma company in Mumbai. On the second day of the job, he
was removed from the office on the ground that his degree was forged and his
college was not recognised by the PCI. He also alleged that after interview, he
was selected in another company but after verification of marksheets, he was
denied appointment due to non-recognition of the college. The institute had
claimed that they were not at fault as the complainant himself took admission
after knowing all the rules. It claimed that it had already on June 14, 2006
filed an application for registration of institute under PCI and the inspection
had been carried out, but due to some formalities to be completed by the
institution, the permission was kept pending. Though the institute had made
several representations to PCI office, the permission of registration was
delayed, it had claimed. The district forum had allowed the complaint and asked
the institute to refund the fees and to pay Rs 50,000 towards compensation and
Rs 5,000 as costs of litigation to the complainant which the state commission
had upheld.
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