MADURAI: A law student has moved the Madurai bench of the Madras high court after anationalised bank denied an education loan to him.
C Boomiraja of Chinnamanur, Theni district joined the three years BL course at the Government Law College, Madurai. Hailing a poor family, Boomiraja persuaded had told his father that he would avail education loan from any nationalised bank.
In his petition, Boomiraja said immediately after getting admitted into college, he along with his father approached the branch manager of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) in Chinnamanur for availing educational loan. After coming to know that his father is a casual labourer and the sole bread winner of the family there was no proper response and the bank did not even issue the application form for availing the loan. Even after approaching the bank several times, they were sent without proper replies.
He then approached the Theni district collector with a representation, which was forwarded to the bank. But to his shock and surprise, the chief manager of IOB, Dindigul passed an order rejecting his application for educational loan and "humiliated the dignity of legal education". Hence, Boomiraja filed the present petition seeking to quash the order and sanction the loan amount.
In the impugned order, the chief manager stated that "the job opportunities on completion of BL course are very much limited in the present scenario except working as a junior with senior advocate for five to seven years and the income earned during such period will not be enough to meet your family commitments and loan instalments. Hence the proposal is not viable one."
Justice V Dhanapalan, before whom the matter came up, directed the petitioner to implead the Union finance ministry and chairman and managing director of IOB, as respondents. The matter was posted for next week.
C Boomiraja of Chinnamanur, Theni district joined the three years BL course at the Government Law College, Madurai. Hailing a poor family, Boomiraja persuaded had told his father that he would avail education loan from any nationalised bank.
In his petition, Boomiraja said immediately after getting admitted into college, he along with his father approached the branch manager of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) in Chinnamanur for availing educational loan. After coming to know that his father is a casual labourer and the sole bread winner of the family there was no proper response and the bank did not even issue the application form for availing the loan. Even after approaching the bank several times, they were sent without proper replies.
He then approached the Theni district collector with a representation, which was forwarded to the bank. But to his shock and surprise, the chief manager of IOB, Dindigul passed an order rejecting his application for educational loan and "humiliated the dignity of legal education". Hence, Boomiraja filed the present petition seeking to quash the order and sanction the loan amount.
In the impugned order, the chief manager stated that "the job opportunities on completion of BL course are very much limited in the present scenario except working as a junior with senior advocate for five to seven years and the income earned during such period will not be enough to meet your family commitments and loan instalments. Hence the proposal is not viable one."
Justice V Dhanapalan, before whom the matter came up, directed the petitioner to implead the Union finance ministry and chairman and managing director of IOB, as respondents. The matter was posted for next week.
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