Supreme Court of India

Orissa Lift Irrigation Corp. Ltd. v. Rabi Sankar Patro & Ors.

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Reported as [2017] 13 S.C.R. 921

Bench Adarsh Kumar Goel and Uday Umesh Laut JJ.

Decided 3 November 2017

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, I would request you kindly to take further necessary steps to implement the action mentioned at para (i) above immediately and also further evolve a broad policy and guidelines to give effect to the action as mentioned at para (ii) c above.

Judgment, page 51

From the headnote

Education/Educational Institutions: Technical education - Through distant education mode - Imparted by Deemed to be University - Respondent-employees acquired Engineering degree through distance education mode, from Deemed to be Universities - Thereafter, filed Writ Petition seeking promotion on the basis of engineering degree - Plea of appellant-employer that the employees were not qualified for promotion as degrees acquired by them was from such institutions which were not approved by AICTE and hence not recognized - High Court allowed the case of employees holding that service rules did

Authorities it was built on

2001 Bharathidasan University and Anr. v. All India Council for Technical Education and Ors. cited by 18
2009 Annamalai University Rep. by Registrar v. Secy. to Govt. Infn. & Tourism Dept. & Ors. cited by 9
2013 Association of Management of Private Colleges, v. All India Council for Technical Education & Ors. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2022 The National Medical Commission v. Pooja Thandu Naresh & Ors. relied on
2020 State of Gujarat v. Mansukhbhai Kanjibhai Shah referred to
2019 Ashok Kumar and Ors. v. Depinder Singh Dhesi and Ors. referred to
2019 Council for Technical Education v. Shri Prince Shivaji Maratha Boarding House’s College of Architecture & Ors. distinguished

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 2 referred to

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