IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI ANIL R. DAVE AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.2187 of 2009 Between: Miss Syeeda, D/o. Syed Abdul Kareem, R/o. H.No.8-7-86/2/B, Old Tandur, Tandur Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. ...Petitioner And 1. The Principal, Govt. Junior College, Tandur, Tandur Mandal, R.R.District. 2. The Secretary, Board of Intermediate, Govt., of A.P., Nampally, Hyderabad. 3. The Commissioner and Director, Collegiate Education, Nampally, Hyderabad. 4. The Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of A.P., Secretariat, Hyderabad. ...Respondents Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not providing Urdu Medium revised new syllabus text book of BPC for the academic year 2008-09 on par with Telugu and English medium and for not providing teaching staff of Urdu Medium, for the Intermediate BPC Course, as illegal, arbitrary, unfair, unjust, contrary to A.P. Educational Act and violative of Articles 14 and 19 Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to conduct Intermediate II year March 2009 annual exams as per the old syllabus and respondent No.4 not to conduct EAMCET entrance exam 2009 as per revised new syllabus and not to give any weightage of marks to the EAMCET Exam 2009 in the interest of justice. Counsel for the petitioner : None Counsel for the respondents : Government Pleader for Higher Education The Court made the following: ORDER: (Per Sri Anil R. Dave, C.J.) Learned Advocate appearing for the petitioner is absent. This is a public interest litigation, wherein a grievance has been ventilated to the effect that textbooks of students studying through Urdu medium of instruction had not been made available to the students of Intermediate in the past. Counter affidavit has been filed by respondent No.2 stating that because of the changed syllabus, some delay was caused in publishing the books in the past, but for the current academic year, books have been duly published. In view of the above, we are prima facie of the view that the grievance ventilated in the petition does not survive. In the circumstances, the petition is dismissed with no order as to costs. ANIL R. DAVE, C.J. 29th July, 2009 RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J. ………..……REGISTRAR To 1. The Principal, Govt. Junior College, Tandur, Tandur Mandal, R.R.District. 2. The Secretary, Board of Intermediate, Govt., of A.P., Nampally, Hyderabad. 3. The Commissioner and Director, Collegiate Education, Nampally, Hyderabad. 4. The Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of A.P., Secretariat, Hyderabad. 5. Two copies to the Govt. Pleader for Higher Education, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT). 6. Two C.D. copies. ARS