IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP. No. 4614 of 2010 Date of Decision: 16.3.2010. Doon Valley Institute of Education --Petitioner Versus The National Council for Teachers' Education and others --Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI. Present:- Mr. T.S. Dhindsa, Advocate for the petitioner. *** PERMOD KOHLI.J (ORAL) Notice of motion. Mr. Vinod S. Bhardwaj, Advocate present in the Court has been asked to accept notice on behalf of respondents. Requisite copies of the petition be furnished to him during the course of the day. Keeping in view the nature of relief claimed and with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is being disposed of at the motion stage itself. The petitioner was granted recognition for B.Ed course under Section 14(3)(a) of the N.C.T.E Act, 1993 vide order dated 16.8.2004 for the session 2004-2005 onwards. The aforesaid recognition has now been withdrawn vide the impugned order dated 25.1.2010 (Annexure P-1) on account of certain deficiencies. The petitioner has preferred an appeal against the aforementioned order before the Appellate Authority (Annexure P-11). The appeal was filed on 8.2.2010. The said appeal is still pending and has not been decided till date. Since the petitioner was earlier granted recognition for the session 2004-2005 with intake capacity of 300 students, large number of CWP. No. 4614 of 2010 -2- students are studying in the petitioner-institute. It is accordingly, necessary that the fate of the appeal should be known to the petitioner as also the students. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the Appellate Authority to decide the appeal filed by the petitioner within a period of three weeks from the date certified copy of this order is served upon the competent authority. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE 16.3.2010. lucky