1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.6373 OF 2009 Suryodaya Gramin Vikas Sanstha Ambejogai, Tq. Ambejogai, District Beed Through its Secretary Raju s/o Dhanraj More, Age 45 years, Occ.Agriculture, R/o Ambejogai, Tq. Ambejogai, District Beed ..PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra, Through the Secretary, Higher and Technical Education Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai 2. The Director of Higher and Technical Education Maharashtra State, Central Building, Pune 3. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, University Campus, Aurangabad Through its Registrar ..RESPONDENTS Mr V.D. Hon, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr N.N. Jadhav, AGP for respondents no.1 & 2; Mr S.S. Thombre, Advocate for respondent no.3. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND A.V. POTDAR, JJ DATE : 25th September 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 prays for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to consider the proposal of the petitioner for additional faculties/courses of the Bachelor of Computer Applications and B.Sc. (Information Technology). In the light of the limited relief which the petitioner has prayed for in this petition, we deem it appropriate to decide this petition finally at this stage. 3. We have heard Shri V.D. Hon, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Shri N.N. Jadhav, learned A.G.P. who accepts notice on behalf of respondents no.1 & 2 and Shri S.S. Thombre, learned Counsel on behalf of respondent no.3. In the light of the statement that the proposal is pending consideration with the respondent no.1, we direct respondent no.1 to decide the said proposal, if pending, in accordance with law, within a period of three months from today and communicate the decision thereon 3 to the petitioner. In case the respondent no.3 University has not forwarded the proposal to respondent no.1 complete in all respects, the respondent no.3 to forward the same within two weeks from today. 4. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. 5. Copy of this judgment duly authenticated be provided to the parties to act upon. ( A.V. POTDAR ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE amj/wp6373.09 4