WP(C) 5745/2010 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE T VAIPHEI This is an unfortunate case. The petitioner has still been denied of the National Scholarship Award on technical grounds. By this time, he has already completed BE course in Computer Science. The petitioner passed the HSLC examination in the year 2003 by obtaining 76.7% m arks in the aggregate out of a total of 600 marks. Whereafter he got himself adm itted to Karimganj College in the Higher Secondary Science stream. He then appli ed for National Scholarship Award under the Ministry of Human Resource Developme nt before the Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, Assam. Having been satisf ied with his performance, the respondent authorities issued the entitlement card in his name on the basis of his selection for the award. According to the petit ioner, the Principal of Karimganj thereafter forwarded the entitlement card of t he petitioner to the Deputy Secretary, Board of Secondary Education for sanction ing the amount. Since then, no amount has been sanctioned till now. In the meant ime, he passed the Higher Secondary (Science) examination from Karimganj College . Thereafter, he got himself admitted for four years BE Degree course in Compute r Science at MVJ College of Engineering, Banglore. The Principal of MVJ College of Engineering, Banglore again forwarded the entitlement card of the petitioner to the Deputy Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, Assam for sanctioning the award, but nothing has been done till date. This forced him to take bank loan f or pursuing his education with the expectation that the authorities would eventu ally sanction the scholarship. However, even after completing the four years BE course in Computer Science, the scholarship has not been sanctioned to the petit ioner. This is how this writ petition has been filed. There is no dispute at the Bar that the petitioner was granted the National Scholarship Award as evident f rom the entitlement card which is at Annexure-E to the writ petition. It may how ever, be noted that the selection is provisional in nature. Mrs P Bhattacharjee, the learned standing counsel for the Education Department d rawing my attention to Paragraph 6 of the affidavit-in-opposition filed by the r espondent No.2 submits that the scholarship amount could not be sanctioned to th e petitioner inasmuch as he failed to submit the entitlement card to the Directo rate of Secondary Education along with the application duly filled up by him and forwarded by the concerned Principal. The Directorate of Secondary Education cl aimed that they have neither received the application nor the entitlement card f rom the petitioner or from the Board of Secondary Education, Assam. In my opinion, if this is the only ground for not sanctioning the scholarship ti ll date, this writ petition deserves to be allowed. The petitioner is accordingly directed to submit within seven days the entitleme nt card in original together with the application for the scholarship duly fille d up by him through the Principal of MVJ College of Engineering, Banglore addres sed to the respondent No.2. As and when such application forwarded by the Princ ipal is received by the respondent No.2, the respondent No.2 will sanction the s cholarship after completing all the formalities within two months thereafter. A copy of this order be furnished to the learned standing counsel for the Educat ion Department.