1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO. 2641 OF 2009 Janta Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Buldhana, A Society duly registered under the provisions of Co-operative Societies Act and Bombay Public Trusts Act, Having its office for correspondence at Opp.R.T.O. Jahagirdar Colony, Aurangabad, Through its President Shri Sk.Abbas Sk.Lal, Age 55 years, Occu.Agriculture & President of above Sanstha, R/o Maloni, Taluka Shirur, District Beed .. PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra through the Principal Secretary, Higher and Technical Education Dept., Mantralaya, Mumbai 32 2. The Director, Higher Education, State of Maharashtra, Pune 3. The Joint Director, Higher Education Department, Aurangabad .. RESPONDENTS Shri S.M.Godsay, Advocate for petitioner Shri K.B.Choudhari, Assistant Govt.Pleader for respondents 1 to 3 CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND A.V. POTDAR, JJ DATE : 7th August 2009 2 ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER P.V.HARDAS , J ] 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to consider and grant aid to the College of the petitioner-society at Khultabad pursuant to the Government Resolution dated 4.2.2008. The petitioner has also prayed for other ancillary reliefs. 3. Undisputedly a permission came to be granted to the petitioner-society for running a Science College on permanent no grant basis. In the light of the issuance of Government Resolution dated 4.2.2008, the petitioner submitted a representation to the respondent-Government seeking grant. The petitioner’s contention is that the aforesaid representation is pending and has not been decided. 4. On notice being issued to the respondents, respondents have filed their affidavit-in-reply and in the affidavit- in-reply, particularly at paragraphs 4 and 5, it is stated that pursuant to the Government Resolution dated 4.2.2008, a Task 3 Force Committee has been appointed. It is scrutinising the proposals received from institutions for grants under the said Government Resolution. Since a Task Force Committee is already examining the feasibility of the proposal and also examining the entitlement of the individual institute for claiming grant under the Government Resolution dated 4.2.2008, we direct the respondents to consider the proposal of the petitioner, in accordance with law. The proposal of the petitioner, therefore, be placed before the Task Force Committee for examining the entitlement of the petitioner for claiming grant under the Government Resolution dated 4.2.2008. 5. We, therefore, allow this petition and make Rule absolute as indicated above with no orders as to costs. ( A.V.POTDAR ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE (vvr/2641.09wp) 4