Justice V Parthiban said the Council of Architecture has granted approval for commencing MArch course in the petitioner college with a sanctioned intake of 20 students from 2018-19. After successfully conducting the course for two years, the college submitted its application for 2020-21 to the council for approval with details of the teaching faculty available on the strength of the department of architecture consisting of 11 professor/associate professor/assistant professor including full-time and visiting members.

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Kaushik Kannan | TNN | Mar 22, 2021, 04:44 IST
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Madurai: The head of the department (HOD) should also be considered as a fulltime professor, Madras high court has said while permitting Thiagarajar College of Engineering in Madurai to accept 20 students in the MArch course for the present academic year.

Justice V Parthiban said the Council of Architecture has granted approval for commencing MArch course in the petitioner college with a sanctioned intake of 20 students from 2018-19. After successfully conducting the course for two years, the college submitted its application for 2020-21 to the council for approval with details of the teaching faculty available on the strength of the department of architecture consisting of 11 professor/associate professor/assistant professor including full-time and visiting members.
The council had issued showcause notice and subsequently passed an order reducing the intake from 20 to 10 on the ground that there is a major cadrewise core faculty deficit. Challenging the reduction of student intake, the college moved HC Madurai bench. Justice Parthiban observed that the scope of dispute in this petition is on a thin line whether the department suffered from lack of core faculty, namely, one full time professor. The judge said that HOD is a fulltime professor but has been designated as HOD. According to the council, the principal/HOD is not to be included in the ratio and therefore the norms of entitling the college to a full intake of 20 students is unacceptable.

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The judge observed that while HOD who has been engaged in teaching students and had been shown as a professor during the last two academic years, the court is unable to comprehend why this year alone the Council has adopted a preposterous stand in not accepting the HOD as a full time professor. The college had appointed one additional professor and submitted representations seeking approval for full intake of students, but none of the representations evoked any response. The judge observed that though such matters normally fall outside the pale of a judicial review, it finds that the action of the competent authority is arbitrary, irrational and unreasonable. Hence, he set aside the order of reduction in student intake and directed the council to grant approval for full intake of 20 students for the architectural course.

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