NARINDER NATH Vs. UOI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioners are employed as Nurses in various hospitals. They completed their Post Basic Nursing Degree Programme Course [in short the 'P.B. B.Sc. (N)] during their service, from respondent No. 5 which is affiliated with respondent No. 2 who has issued the degrees to them. They had filed the writ petition with a grievance that their degree of P.B. B.Sc. Nursing is not being recognized. The writ petition was dismissed by this Court on the ground that the candidate qualifying PB. B.SC. (N) from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (in short -'IGNOU') through distance education is not eligible for admission to M.Sc. (N) Programme as the study centres are not recognized by Indian Nursing Council, (in short -'INC'). It was found that INC had given permission to respondent No. 5 for regular courses and not for courses conducted by IGNOU through its Programme Study Centres (PSC).

(2.) THE order dated 06.08.2013 passed in CWP No. 11605 of 2012 was challenged by the petitioners in LPA No. 1712 of 2013 in which the following order dated 18.11.2013 was passed: -

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioners has submitted that during the pendency of the review application, LPA No. 2115 of 2013, Saroj Bala Vs. State of Haryana and others in CWP No. 22056 of 2013 was also decided on 27.11.2013 by the Division Bench of this Court in which following order was passed: -