ORDER

Dated this the 8^th day of December, 2025 This review petition is filed mainly on the ground that the finding in the judgment regarding the necessity of obtaining Suitability Certificate as a pre-requisite for grant of Letter of Permission by the Government, is erroneous.

2. Learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner relies on the Full Bench decision in Velayudhan Memorial Trust v. State of Kerala [2013 (3) KLT 367], particularly paragraph 22 therein, to contend that the authority of the Indian Nursing Council (INC) is limited to the establishment of standards of education which includes prescribing the syllabus, norms of training, infrastructure for conducting the courses etc. and it is for the State Nursing Council to conduct inspection and ensure that those parameters are satisfied. It is the further contention of the learned Senior Counsel that, even going by Regulation 4 of the Indian Nursing Council (Minimum Pre-requisites For Granting Suitability To Nursing Programs) Regulations, 2020, Suitability Certificate from the Indian Nursing Council is not a pre- requisite and need be applied for only within six months of obtaining recognition from the State Nursing Co