The Telangana High Court, in a two-judge panel headed by Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Surepalli Nanda, dismissed a PIL questioning the collection of data collected in August 2014 from Seemandhra people living in the state of Telangana.
In this case, the panel was dealing with a PIL filed by one Rammohan Chaudhary. The petitioner argued that an outsourcing agency was responsible for data collection. Such sensitive personal data was at risk of being leaked into the hands of outsourcing agencies.
The panel dismissed the PIL for non-prosecution when the petitioner, who was appearing in person, did not turn up for the hearing despite the matter being specifically posted for hearing.
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HC dismisses PIL seeking Environmental Science as compulsory subject
The Telangana High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) asking the state to make Environmental Science a Compulsory Subject.
This order was issued by a Division Bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Surepalli Nanda while hearing a PIL filed by T. Dhangopal Rao.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in M.C Mehta v Union of India, the PIL was filed seeking a direction to the State of Telangana to make Environmental Science a compulsory subject.
The Court noted that on March 21, 2017, the Court requested a report from the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh because the Court was a joint High Court for both states at the time.
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As a result, the Court removed the state of Andhra Pradesh from the list of respondents.
Respondents then filed a counter-affidavit, but the Court found that it did not reveal that Environmental Science was made a compulsory subject.
The court stated that awareness of the environment and its problems related to pollution should be taught as a compulsory subject through the medium of education. The Attorney-General informed us that the Central Government is involved in higher education, while the University Grants Commission can only monitor undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The rest, he claims, is a matter of the state.
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