HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO: 21923 of 2005 Dated: 08-08-2007 Between: National Education Society, NIETS complex, Bollerugudem, Rep., by its President, New Paloncha, Khammam District. ..... PETIT AND The Commissioner & Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. .....RESPOND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 21923 of 2005 O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare the proceedings dated 31-12-2001 issued by the respondent whereby he declined to grant permission to start B.Ed college as illegal and for a consequential direction to consider the representations made by the petitioner for grant of No Objection Certificate. At the hearing, Sri N.Sridhar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that this Court in Government of Andhra Pradesh v. National Council for Teacher Education[1] held that it is the National Council for Teacher Education which is the competent authority to grant permission for starting all B.Ed colleges and that the State Government or its functionaries have no such powers. Learned Assistant Government Pleader agreed with this position. In view of the same, learned counsel for the petitioner states that the writ petition has become infructuous. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. However, the petitioner is left free to avail his remedies open to him in law. No costs. ------------------------------------ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date: 08-08-2007 KLP [1] 2006(2) ALD 120