THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 5040 OF 1998 DATE: 29-1-2008 Between: Smt.B.Usha Rani ….. Petitioner And 1. The Correspondent J.G.M. High School, Kurnool and 3 others … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 5040 OF 1998 ORDER: The relief sought for in this writ petition is to appoint the petitioner to the grant-in-aid post of Telugu Pandit Grade-II or as an SGBT. In State of Assam v. Ajit Kumar Sarma[1] the Supreme Court held that no mandamus could be issued against the State directing it to provide grant-in-aid, that what grants the State should make to private educational institutions and upon what terms, were matters for the State to decide and, in the absence of any statutory provision governing such grant, no mandamus could be issued directing the State to provide grant-in-aid. Following the said judgment, a Division Bench of this Court in Y.Sidda Reddy v. Government of A.P.[2] observed that no private educational institution or an employee of such an educational institution had a legal right to compel financial assistance by the State. The petitioner, in effect, seeks extension of grant-in-aid to the post of Telugu Grade Pandit-II held by her. Similarly, her request that she be appointed as an SGBT would also require a mandamus to be issued to the Government to extend financial assistance by way of grant-in-aid. In view of the law laid by the Supreme Court and the Division Bench of this Court in the judgments aforementioned, no such relief can be granted. The writ petition fails and is accordingly dismissed. ___________ 29-1-2008 asp [1] AIR 1965 SC 1196 [2] Judgment in W.P.8697 of 1005 dt.7.11.2005