Wednesday, Oct 08, 2008
Chennai: The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to grant a no-objection certificate (NOC) to a private medical college proposed by the Deen Dayal Medical and Educational Trust, in a prescribed format within four weeks.

An interim order to this effect was passed by Justice K Kannan, on a writ petition filed by the Trust chairman and managing trustee T D Naidu, last week.


The judge, pointing out that the government already carried out the mandatory inspection and concluded that the institution fulfilled all necessary norms, said the NOC shall be given "in terms of the prescribed format in Form-2."

Though the government issued an NOC in January 2007 and forwarded it to the Centre in November 2007, it was not in the format prescribed in the MCI regulation, Naidu had stated in his petition.

The essentiality certificate issued to the new medical college, with a sanctioned annual student intake of 150, shall comply with the regulation, he said.

Justice Kannan said that since inspection is over and the institution had fulfilled all necessary norms "the NOC shall be translated in terms of the prescribed format in Form-2 ".