IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2733 of 2012 Date of Decision : February 14, 2012. Prem Chand Markanda SD College for Women .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Sameeer Sachdeva, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.B.S.Chahal, Sr.DAG, Punjab. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Mr.B.S.Chahal, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Let three copies of the writ petition be supplied to the learned State counsel during the course of day failing which the order shall be automatically recalled and the writ petition shall be deemed to have been dismissed for non-prosecution. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no need to seek any counter-reply from the respondents at this stage. The grievance of the petitioner-college is that the due amount of Grant-in-Aid, as detailed in para No.12 of the writ petition, is not being released by the respondents even though the petitioner-college is covered CWP No.2733 of 2012 [2] under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. The petitioner is said to have served the respondents in this regard with a legal notice dated 18.10.2011 (Annexure P-4) also. The petitioner-college relies upon earlier decisions of this Court vide which the respondents were directed to release the grant-in-aid. In my considered view, if the petitioner-college fulfills the requisite conditions and is eligible under the grant-in-aid and if there is no legal impediment against its release, the due amount of grant-in-aid ought to be released as the delay in this regard would cause hardship to the teaching faculty and employees to whom salary cannot be paid unless the aid is received. Consequently and without expressing any views on the eligibility and entitlement of the petitioner-college, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to consider the petitioner's claim regarding release of the outstanding amount of the grant-in-aid as contained in the legal notice dated 18.10.2011 (Annexure P- 4) and if anything is found due, to release the same within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. February 14, 2012 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE