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As informed in the past issue, the IT (Amendment) 2010 Bill has been passed by Lok Sabha on March 24. Now we have to wait till it is passed in Rajya Sabha for attaining IIT status for our institute.
The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) 2011 Bill is meant for converting IT-BHU to IIT-BHU and giving official status of IITs to the 8 new IITs. The next session of Rajya Sabha will start at the beginning of July.
We have to wait a little more to see our institute as an IIT. We the alumni, teachers, students, parents of students and many well-wishers should not be complacent at this stage as we all have still to overcome the hurdles and the opposition in this journey.
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Following news is about writ petition filed in Allahabad Court against conversion of IT-BHU to IIT and its dismissal by the Court. The petitioner, Prof. S. N. Thakur is Retired faculty member of BHU. http://www.bhu.ac.in/physics/snthakur.html
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http://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/StartWebSearch.do
http://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebShowJudgment.do
Court No. - 38
Case: - WRIT - C No. - 20470 of 2011
Petitioner: - Prof. S. N. Thakur And Another
Respondent: - Union Of India And Others
Petitioner Counsel: - Vivek Varma
Respondent Counsel: - A.S.G.I.,Hem Pratap Singh
Hon'ble Devendra Pratap Singh, J.
Heard learned counsel for the parties.
The Banaras Hindu University, a Central University which also has a Faculty of Technology as one of the Faculties. The said Faculty is in the process of being converted into Indian Institute of Technology to be governed by an Act of Parliament. The petitioners, who are retired Faculty members of the said University has challenged the said action even though they have no personal interest and if they are interested, this is not the forum and the petitioners would have to approach the appropriate forum for any such relief.
Subject to the aforesaid liberty, the writ petition is dismissed.
Order Date: - 28.4.2011
AU
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IIT status to BHU Institute of Technology challenged in HC
PTI | 10:04 PM,Apr 20,2011
Allahabad, Apr 20 (PTI) A petition was today placed before the Allahabad High Court challenging grant of IIT status to Benaras Hindu University Institute of Technology. A division bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhusan and Ran Vijai Singh fixed April 25 as the date of hearing on the writ petition filed by S N Thakur challenging the varsity's Executive Council resolution, passed on February 21, 2009, giving assent to separate the Institute of Technology from BHU and granting it IIT status. The petitioner contended that the Executive Council had no jurisdiction to pass such a resolution and separation of the Institute of Technology from BHU went against the vision of its founder Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. The Centre had given its approval for granting IIT status to the institute in February and a bill to this effect was passed in Lok Sabha on March 24.
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http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/intro.htm
B y the Indian High Courts Act passed by British Parliament in 1861, provision was made, not only for the replacement of the Supreme Courts of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay and for the establishment of High Courts in their places, but for the establishment of a High Court by Letters Patent in any other part of Her Majesty’s territories not already included in the jurisdiction of another High Court. In the year 1866, the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces came into existence at Agra under Letters Patent of the 17th March, 1866, replacing the old Sudder Diwanny Adawlat.
Sir Walter Morgan, Barrister-at-Law and Mr. Simpson were appointed the first Chief Justice and the first Registrar respectively of High Court of North-Western Provinces.
The seat of the High Court for the North-Western Provinces was shifted from Agra to Allahabad in 1869 and its designation was altered to ‘the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad’ by a supplementary Letters patent issued on March 11, 1919.
The Oudh Chief Court at Lucknow, replacing the Oudh Judicial Commissioner’s Court, was established on November 2, 1925 not by Letters Patent but by the Oudh Civil Courts Act, IV of 1925, enacted by the U.P. Legislature with the previous sanction of the Governor-General to the passing of this Act, as required by the Government of India Act, 1919s. 80-A (3).
By the U.P. High Court Amalgamation Order, 1948, the Chief Court of Oudh was amalgamated with the High Court of Allahabad and the new High Court was conferred the jurisdiction of both the Courts so amalgamated. By the Amalgamation Order the jurisdiction of the Court under the Letters Patent and that of the Chief Court under the Oudh Courts Act was preserved.
In July, 1949 the States Merger (Governor’s Provinces) order was passed which was amended in November the States Merger (United Provinces) Order, 1949 whereby the powers of the Government of some Indian States specified in the Schedule, which had vested in the Dominion Government were transferred to the adjoining Governors’ Provinces. In Schedule VII, Rampur, Benaras and Tehri Garhwal were the States specified, and by section 3 the said states were to be administered in all respects as if they formed part of the absorbing province.
On the eve of the Republic Day celebrations on the 26th January, 1950 the date of commencement of the Constitution of India, the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad came to have jurisdiction throughout the entire length and breadth of the State of Uttar Pradesh.
By the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, State of Uttaranchal and Uttaranchal High Court came into existence from the midnight intervening 8 and 9 November, 2000 and in view of section 35 of the Act, High Court at Allahabad ceased to have jurisdiction of 13 districts falling within the territory of State of Uttaranchal.
At present, sanctioned strength of Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is 160.
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