IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.22291 of 2011 Date of Decision : December 01, 2011. DM College, Moga and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Sameeer Sachdeva, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, 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. Ms.Sudeepti Sharma, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab accepts notice on behalf of the respondents. Let three copies of the writ petition be handed-over to the learned State counsel during the course of day. In view of the nature of order which I propose to pass, there is no needs to seek any counter-reply from the respondents at this stage. The grievance of the petitioner-colleges 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-colleges are covered CWP No.22291 of 2011 [2] under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. In this regard, the petitioners are said to have served the respondents with a legal notice dated 11.7.2011 (Annexure P-4) also. The petitioner-colleges also refer to the earlier decisions of this Court vide which the respondents were directed to release the grant-in-aid to those colleges. In my considered view, if the petitioner-colleges fulfill the requisite conditions and are eligible for the grant-in-aid, there would be no rhyme or reason for not releasing the same as the delay in this regard would cause hardship to the teaching faculty and employees to whom the salary cannot be paid. Consequently and without expressing any views on the eligibility and entitlement of the petitioner-colleges, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to consider the petitioners' claim regarding release of the outstanding amount of the grant-in-aid as contained in the legal notice dated 11.7.2011 (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. December 01, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE