Bhopal: Supreme Court (SC), on Tuesday, accepted and allowed the appeals preferred by Private Nursing Colleges directing the State Nurses Registration Counsel (SNRC) and Directorate of Medical Education (DME) for taking a final decision on the pending applications for grant of approval / recognition of the new colleges within a week, latest by October 29, 2018. Double bench presided by Justice S.A. Bobade and Justice Abdul Nazeer passed the order on Tuesday.

Depending on the grant of approval / recognition, the colleges shall be free to admit students upto October 31, 2018 against the permitted intake of the SNRC and DME.  The colleges were represented through their Advocate Siddharth Radhelal Gupta both before the High Court as well as before the Supreme Court.

Gupta pleaded before the SC that colleges cannot be made to wait indefinitely for the State Government to frame and finalise the rules. Gupta also pleaded that in the meanwhile, norms and standards and rules as framed by the IMC must be followed for granting approvals, else the whole academic session 2018-19 shall be lost.

The order came on the appeals preferred against the interim order of Jabalpur High Court (HC) which had declined the similar prayer of the new colleges, on the grounds that the State Government had not framed the Rules pertaining to grant of recognition / permission to the new colleges, and that therefore the issue of approvals / recognition cannot be decide without it.  Against the said rejection of interim relief by the HC, the colleges filed appeals before the Supreme Court, which passed the aforesaid order allowing their appeals today.