Presented By Ajit Khabiya-181 Abhilasha Jha-174 Baijul Raval-153 Divanshu Gupta-170 Amit Mukherjee-16 Gaurav Sharma-138 Naushad Kausar-253

Prashant Nayak-227 Sanjay Nair-195 Anand Vijay-185

CASE 1: Ravi Kumar Arora Vs. Union of India & Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

The case:
The petitioner, Ravi Kumar Arora- cleared Civil Services Examination 2001.
Merit rank 325 and cleared the interview. He was asked to undergo medical examination and was found that he was having

sub- standard vision- Myopia.

He requested UPSC to treat him as a disabled candidate and appoint him under

Disabled Category which was having a quota of 40%.

UPSC declined his request, saying at the time of filling the application , he did

not mention about the disability.

The petitioner also requested to get a chance to write the Mains by forgoing the

prelims , in the next year- 2002.

UPSC declined again saying there is only a category of people with physical

disability and not myopic people.

The verdict:
The court ordered to enroll the petitioner as he has cleared the Civil service

examination on merit and also cleared the panel interview under General category in 2001.
To deny the benefit of appointing him in Indian Postal Services or equivalent

Services would be no justice to the law and hence he be taken in within a month of judgment and forward him all the benefits and remuneration.
To also appoint him as per the batch which he was supposed to be in i.e; 2001

along with his batch mates.

Also the court asked the respondent to pay the proceeding fees to the

petitioners an amount of Rs. 20,000/=

The court also asked the bench to appoint a team to include a new category of

Visually impaired in the application form.

Case 2: Degrees of IIPM

Background
In June 2009, an investigative story IIPM - best only

in claims, which discussed among other things, the validity of degrees offered by IMI (a Belgian institute IIPM tied up with, to award MBA/BBA degrees to IIPM students). Students must know that IIPM cannot award recognized BBA./MBA degrees since it is not approved by AICTE/ UGC.

Continued..
The tie-up with IMI, Belgium was to overcome this

handicap. Subsequent to the publication of the story, on June 18, 2009, IIPM brought out advertisements mentioning degrees to be offered by University of Buckingham, UK and not from IMI, Belgium. It was cross-checked with the University of Buckingham and published another article in July 2009 issue, which debunked this claim, too.

Continued
Post the publication of our second article, IIPM

removed the name of University of Buckingham from the ad. However, we noticed that the name IMI had cropped up again. The matter was taken with the Rudy Derdelinckx, Director of NVAO, (the UGC/ AICTE equivalent authority for regulation of Higher Education in Belgium) to check the validity of degrees issued by IMI, Belgium. It was a hope that the accreditation/approval status of IMI has changed for the benefit of students in India and hence its re-appearence in IIPM's ads.

The essence of the letter is as follows:

The MBA/BBA degree given by IMI, Belgium is not

recognized and hence not legitimate even in its country of origin, Belgium. Students in Belgium using the title Master or Bachelor can even be prosecuted, if it is based on a degree given by IMI. Using those titles (given by IMI, Belgium) without holding a legitimate degree is illegal in Belgium.

Continued
As this is very important information that we received

from NVAO (Belgium equivalent of UGC), we decided to add this advisory for information to all prospective students of IIPM. Students can also make their own verification in the country where they wish to study/work as the rules regarding validity/prosecution/illegality may vary from country to country, though the rules are largely based on their validity from the country where the qualification originates from.

Governments verdict

Thank you!!