Skip to content


Judgment Search Results Home > Cases Phrase: indian nursing council act 1947 section 12 power to require information as to courses of study and training and examinations Page 1 of about 61 results (0.313 seconds)

Nov 11 2002 (HC)

K.L.E. Society and anr. Vs. Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences ...

Court : Karnataka

Reported in : 2003(2)KarLJ480

..... section 12 deals with power to require information as to courses of study and training and examination ..... nursing courses in pursuance of the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 13 of the indian nursing council act of 1947 ..... contention, it is necessary to have a look at the provisions of the indian nursing council act of 1947 (hereinafter referred to 'inc act') to find out whether the said act empowers the council to fix the intake of any of the nursing courses.16. ..... contend, the indian nursing council act of 1947 being a central legislation it would have an overriding effect on the act which is a state legislation and therefore if the power to fix the intake rests with the indian nursing council the government has no power to fix the intake for any course. ..... powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 16 of the inc act the council has made the regulations which are called as indian nursing council ..... act was passed to constitute an indian nursing council in order to establish a uniform standard of training for nurses, midwives and health visitors and ..... the competent authority to fix the intake for admission to the aforesaid courses is the government and when once the government has sanctioned the intake of four students in each discipline, it is not open to the first respondent-university to refuse to approve the admissions on the ground that the indian nursing council has fixed the intake at four seats, and therefore submits, the order of the first respondent-university directing the .....

Tag this Judgment!

Jul 09 2013 (HC)

Private Nursing Schools and Colleges Management Association and Others ...

Court : Mumbai

..... and prescribe textbooks and to publish statements of prescribed courses of study; (h) to grant certificates and diplomas and marks of honour; (i) to award stipends, scholarships, medals, prizes and other rewards; (j) to recognise institutions for the purpose of training and giving instruction for the courses leading to the examinations held by the council, or to cancel such recognition; (k) to regulate the conditions under which institutions for the nursing of the sick, maternity or child welfare may be affiliated to the council; (l) to provide for the inspection of recognised and affiliated institutions, and to require such institutions to furnish such information ..... the indian nursing council act, 1947 would also make it amply clear and particularly vide sections 10 and 11 that it is the nursing council alone which is empowered to recognize the qualifications and withdraw ..... as may be prescribed by the act, the powers, duties and functions of the council shall be, inter-alia, to prescribe the courses of training leading to the examinations held by the council and to charge fees for such examinations; to prepare, publish and prescribe text-books and to publish statements of prescribed courses of study; to recognize the institutions for the purpose of training and giving instruction for the courses leading to the examinations held by the council or to cancel such recognition and to regulate the conditions under which the institutions for the nursing of the sick, maternity or child .....

Tag this Judgment!

Apr 25 2014 (HC)

Aheli Bal Vs. Director of Jipmer

Court : Chennai

..... power for grant of medical degrees by the first respondent, without reference to the regulations and provisions made under the medical council of india act, at the risk of repetition, section 24 of the jipmer act clearly and explicitly, in the matter of providing medical degrees by the jipmer institute, excludes the indian medical council act, 1956, the dentist act, 1948 and the indian nursing council act, 1947 from the provisions of the jipmer act for granting medical degrees, therefore, no provision under the indian medical council act, 1956 and ..... section 12, the first respondent-jipmer is given power to specify courses and curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies and notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the institute is given further power to establish and maintain one or more medical colleges with different departments, one or more well equipped hospitals and to hold examination and grant such degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions and titles in undergraduate and ..... the practice of dentistry and for the practical training of students as may be necessary, (iv) a nursing college sufficiently staffed and equipped for the training of nurses, (v)rural and urban health organisations which will form centres for the field training of the medical, dental and nursing students of the institute as well as for research into community health problems, and (vi) other institutions for the training of different types of .....

Tag this Judgment!

Jan 23 2006 (HC)

Nirwan Charitable Trust Vs. State of Rajasthan and ors.

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : AIR2007Raj60; RLW2006(2)Raj1527; 2006(3)WLC149

..... council to determine the intake capacity of trainee students in nursing institutions, we may mention that the indian nursing council act, 1947 is a pre-constitution enactment and the legislation can be traced to entry 12 of list i of the seventh schedule to the government of india act, 1935 which refers to 'institutions for professional and technical training ..... governments and the registrars of the state nursing councils vide letter dated 13.5.2002; having regard to the controversy involved, it would be useful to quote the same verbatim as under:reference to the subject given above, i am to inform you that the issue was discussed in the council meeting held on 22.12.2001 and it was observed that some of the states are giving 100 to 120 seats for starting nursing courses. ..... professional, vocational or technical training' and 'determination of standards in institutions for higher education or research and scientific and technical institutions' fall under legislative competent of the parliament vide entries 65 and 66 of list i, and it is in exercise of such power that amendments were made in the indian nursing council act by the parliament after ..... section (2) thereof provides-inspectors appointed under this section shall report to the executive committee on the suitability of the institution for the purposes of training and on the adequacy of the training therein on the sufficiency of the examinations ..... required to be observed by every nursing institution for being recognised by the council .....

Tag this Judgment!

Jul 16 2014 (HC)

Narinder Nath and Others Vs. Uoi and Others

Court : Punjab and Haryana

..... the counsel for the petitioners has further referred to paragraph 17 of the judgment in which while disposing of the writ petition, a direction has also been issued to the effect that it is hereby declared that the council had duly recognized, in terms of section 10 (2) of the indian nursing council act, 1947 (hereafter called 'the act . ..... it is hereby declared that the council had duly recognized, in terms of section 10 (2) of the indian nursing council act, 1947, the post basic b.sc. ..... (nursing) course, wherever such cours.is to be pursued at a study centre which is not already inspected and approved by the council in terms of section 10 (2) of the act. . ..... (nursing) but was informed that she was ineligble as she had taken coaching from a study centre known as 'safdar jung college of nursing, new delhi'. ..... the appeal is accordingly allowed and the impugned order of the learned single judge is set-aside with a direction to respondent no.2 to admit the appellant to its cours.subject to fulfillment of all other requirements and the needful be done within a week from today. . ..... nursing examination in the year 2008 from indira gandhi national open university, new delhi/respondent no.4 (('ignou').respondent no.2 is a medical college affiliated to respondent no.3 university. .....

Tag this Judgment!

Dec 06 2005 (HC)

National Medical Educational Charitable Trust Vs. Kerala Nursing and M ...

Court : Kerala

Reported in : 2006(2)KLT612

..... upon report by the executive committee, it appears to the council -(a) that the courses of study and training and the examinations to be gone through in order to obtain a recognised qualification from any authority in any state or the conditions for admission to such courses or the standards of proficiency required from the candidates at such examinations are not in conformity with the regulations made under the act or fall short of the standards required thereby, or(b) that an institution recognised by a state council for the training of nurses, midwives or health visitors does not satisfy the ..... according to the learned counsel, going by sections 10 to 14 of the indian nursing council act 1947, the said act mainly governs matters, relating to recognition of qualifications. ..... section 12 provides that every authority in any state, which grants a recognised qualification, or a higher qualification, shall furnish such information, as the central council may, from time to me, require, as to the courses of study, training and examinations to be undergone in order to obtain such qualifications etc. ..... in the case of institutions, like the institution of the petitioner, the power of the central council in the light of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 14 read with clause (b) of sub-section (3) thereof, is limited to de-recognising the qualification obtained from such institutions in other states. .....

Tag this Judgment!

Nov 01 2001 (TRI)

B.P. Pookunju and ors. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Central Administrative Tribunal CAT Ernakulam

Reported in : (2003)(1)SLJ10CAT

..... the indian nursing council is a body set up under the indian nursing council act, 1947 and thus has statutory sanction. ..... after careful examination of the case of the applicants it was decided that the applicants were not categorised as nursing personnel as per the guidelines of the indian nursing council.as such they were not eligible for any of the allowances that were sanctioned particularly to the nursing personnel including nursing allowance, uniform allowance and washing allowance. ..... further, it is an admitted position that the training given to the nursing orderlies and lab attendants was not under the authority of the indian nursing council. ..... "in these circumstances if the minister ordered, in the absence of specific-rules on the point, that the hearing should be by the secretary, he was, in my opinion, complying with the essential requirement, namely, that there should be an oral hearing by the state government before the decision of the objections. ..... personal hearing enables the authority concerned to watch the demeanor of the witnesses and clear-up his doubts during the course of the arguments, and the party appearing to persuade the authority by reasoned argument to accept his point of view. ..... if that is correct, the function to be performed under section 68-d(2), does not satisfy the test of a judicial hearing. ..... the objections may be heard by any one who has been delegated the power. .....

Tag this Judgment!

Dec 10 2014 (HC)

Amar Singh Verma Vs. Union of India and Ors

Court : Delhi

..... favour to gandhi memorial medical training institute & college, dalhousie road, pathankot by directing the registrar, himachal pradesh nursing registration council, simla to register the gandhi memorial medical training institute & college with their council and give the affiliation/recognisition, by issuing an official communication even though you were not authorised and vested with such powers including statutory powers in violation of the provisions of the indian nursing council act, 1947 and thereby unbecoming of an employee of indian nursing council in discharge of your duties during ..... was filed in the high court of himachal pradesh, simla in the year 1993 in writ petition no.1537 of 1993 at the instance of gandhi memorial medical training institute & college, pathankot for certain reliefs including for a relief against respondent no.2 to hold regular examination in future for all the courses in accordance with the guidelines and instructions of indian nursing council from time to time. ..... school of nursing, parumala; informing them that the institutions had been included in the list of recognised institutions prepared by the indian nursing council. ..... not very clear, though is fit to join hands in order to make it appear that the institute run by the petitioner had been inspected and also found to be fulfilled of the requirements justifying the grant of recognition/affiliation which was also directly to be given by the 3rd respondent when it had no authority or power to do so. .....

Tag this Judgment!

Aug 11 1998 (HC)

Suresh Yadav and ors. Vs. the Registrar, Rajasthan Nursing Council and ...

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : AIR1999Raj158; 1999(3)WLC165

..... under this act, namely :-- (i) nurses, midwives, health visitors and auxiliary nurse-midwives who have undergone the course of training prescribed by the council and have passed the prescribed examinations held by the council and fulfil such further conditions as may be prescribed; (ii) nurses, midwives, health visitors and auxiliary nurse-midwives holding corresponding certificates issued by, authorities in other states in india and foreign council if such certificates are recognised by the indian nursing council; (iii) nurse, midwives, health visitors and auxiliary nurse-midwives who are already in practice at the commencement of this act and fulfil such ..... the registrar, rajasthan nursing council vide its order dated 24-2-1997 had cancelled the registration of the petitioner on the ground that the secretary of the indian nursing council vide its order dated 18-2-1996 and letter dated 6-2-1997 had informed that navodaya school of nursing, raichur has not yet been recognised by the rajasthan nursing council, the impugned action is alleged to have been taken under section 18 of the rajasthan nurses, midwives, health, visitors, auxiliary nurses, midwives registration act, 1964. ..... 2, it had been categorically stated para 3 mentioning that the indian nursing coun-cil as per section 10 of the nursing council act 1947 has no authority to recognise the institution as per the provisions of section 10 of the act, as the indian nursing council recognises the au-thorities and not the schools. .....

Tag this Judgment!

Dec 09 1999 (HC)

Sunil Acharya and Others Vs. State of Karnataka and Others

Court : Karnataka

Reported in : ILR2000KAR2228; 2000(4)KarLJ445

..... section 16(g) and (h) of the indian nursing council act, 1947 empower the council established thereunder to prescribe the standard and curricula for training of nurses, midwives and health visitors as also the conditions of eligibility for admission to such courses of training. ..... the indian nursing council act, 1947 not only envisages a central nursing council, but empowers the said council to prescribe standard curricula of training of nurses, midwives and health visitors and conditions for admissions to institutions offering such training. ..... sheriff, counsel appearing for the petitioners, that indian nursing council as also the karnataka state nursing council had recognised the vocational higher secondary examination conducted by the vocational higher secondary board of kerala as a qualifying examination prescribed by the regulations of the indian nursing council. ..... that being so, the equivalence granted by the said board would satisfy the requirements of the regulations framed by the indian nursing council. ..... thecouncil has in exercise of the said power published syllabi and regulations and inter alia prescribed the terms and conditions for admission of candidates to a three years' course in general nursing and midwifery. ..... the expression 'preferably with science subjects' clearly signifies that the student need not have necessarily studied the said subjects.3. .....

Tag this Judgment!


Save Judgments// Add Notes // Store Search Result sets // Organize Client Files //