Cuttack: The Ravenshaw Bikash Abhijan (RBA) on Wednesday moved a PIL in Orissa High Court as it continues it battle against Ravenshaw University authorities for promoting self-financed courses.

Acting on the PIL, the high court issued notices to the varsity authorities to file their reply within a week.

The PIL followed a nearly weeklong campaign against self-financed courses through street-corner meetings and a "Save Ravenshaw Convention" on the issue earlier this month. On Monday, it had submitted a memorandum to the vigilance director and demanded an inquiry into alleged financial irregularities at the varsity related to the huge amount of money collected as fees for self-financed courses.

RBA president Chittaranjan Mohanty filed the PIL seeking the high court's direction for converting existing self-financed courses into regular ones and quashing of the process started to introduce self-financed seats with new courses from the 2018-19 academic year. He alleged that the varsity authorities "are bent upon turning a seat of learning into a trade centre by enhancing self financing seats without any infrastructure".

After a preliminary hearing, the division bench of Chief Justice Vineet Saran and Justice B.R. Sarangi posted the matter to June 28 for hearing with the reply of the varsity.