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"Distance Education, Mahatma Gandhi University has requested to extend the facilities of our centre for the conduct of M.Phil Clinical Psychology Programme. This would be beneficial for the institution. Now this centre has only 2 clinical psychologists. This is grossly inadequate to :: 3 ::

provide services to be inpatients of this 507 bedded hospital.

6. I heard Mr.Elvin Peter, learned counsel for the petitioner, Smt.Sudhadevi, learned Government Pleader and Sri.T.A.Shaji, learned counsel for the M.G.University.

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7. Ext.P11 letter sent by the Superintendent of the Mental Health Centre has already been referred to. If one of the objections that stands in the way of the Government in giving approval to the conduct of M.Phil in Clinical Psychology by the School of Distance Education, M.G.University is the absence of a MOU, then the same could be remedied in the light of the willingness of the University to enter into Memorandum of Understanding, as stated in the counter affidavit. Absence of a separate department in Clinical Psychology in the Mental Health Centre may not be of much consequence in the present case, because the University has only proposed user of the facilities in the Mental Health Centre for conducting the course. It is up to the University to provide a department and faculties. Absence of adequate number of clinicl psychologists in the Mental Health Centre may not be a relevant factor, because University is to provide the staff as per the University Act and the First Statutes. Prior permission of the Rehabilitation Council is also a requirement, provided, :: 8 ::

the conditions are to be satisfied by the University itself. Insofar as the Government is concerned, its role is to give an approval to the facilities in the Mental Health Centre to the school of Distance Education, M.G.University for imparting a course of M.Phil (Clinical Psychology). Clinical Psychologists are a group of professionals, whose services will be required in large numbers. The Government should extend its hands to see that practical training is afforded to the students, who are offered such course. Technical considerations should not stand in the way of the Government in taking a decision in this regard. The reasons given in Ext.P13 are neither compelling nor convincing.