THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P.No.25375 OF 2010 ORDER: This writ petition has been instituted seeking a writ o f mandamus declaring the action of the respondent University in not reckoning the period during which the writ petitioner has participated at the National and Zonal level games, towards attendance to enable him to qualify for appearing at the examinations. He is now pursuing Third Year Engineering Course. In somewhat similar circumstances, dealing with W.P.No.7609 of 2009, by judgment rendered on 22-07-2009, my learned sister Justice G. Rohini, has held as under: “As held by this Court in W.P.No.24114 of 2008 and batch dated 30.06.2009, shortage of attendance below 65% in aggregate shall not be condoned in any case. However, if the shortage is between 65% and 75%, the College Academic Committee is competent to condone the same for genuine reasons. Having regard to the fact that the petitioners herein are disputing the attendance particulars maintained by the college and claiming that they are entitled to attendance for the period during which they had participated in sports & cultural events representing the 2nd respondent College, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition permitting the petitioners to make an appropriate representation before the University as well as the College putting forth their case along with supporting material on or before 31-07-2009. If any such application is made within the time prescribed above, the College Academic Committee shall consider the same in accordance with law and submit its report to the University within one week thereafter. On the basis of such report, the University shall pass a final order with regard to eligibility of the petitioners to appear for the examinations. Till such time, the petitioners shall be permitted to appear for the next semester classes subject to the final order that may be passed by the University. It is made clear that this shall not entitle the petitioners to claim any equities in case the decision of the University goes against them.” The learned counsel for the writ petitioner would further submit that the respondent University (JNTU) itself has taken a policy decision and announced the same through their Proceedings No. D3/4797/2007, dated 12-11-2007, as to how the actual period of absence from the college while attending to games and sports meets are to be counted towards attendance. Therefore, keeping in view the guidelines contained in the aforementioned Proceedings, the 1st respondent University may deal with the representation, which the writ petitioner is now required to submit, and pass appropriate orders thereon within a period of ten days from the date of receipt of such representation and communicate the same to the writ petitioner. With this, the writ petition stands disposed of at the admission stage with the consent of the learned Standing Counsel for the respondent University Sri K. Rathangapani Reddy. No costs. --------------------------------- Nooty Ramamohana Rao, J Note: Issue copy in two days. (bo) mrk 6th October 2010