PNP 1 WP6757-3.10.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.6757 OF 2011 Sandip Foundation and another ..Petitioners. versus Director of Technical Education, Maharashtra State and others ..Respondents. ..... Mr. Ashutosh Kumbhakoni with Mr. L.M. Acharya i/b Mr. Sathyam Acharya for the Petitioners. Mr. Sameer N. Patel, AGP for Respondents 1 and 2. Mr. Rui A. Rodrigues for Respondent No.3. ...... CORAM : DR.D.Y.CHANDRACHUD & A. A. SAYED, JJ. 3 October 2011. P.C. : 1. Leave to amend. Verification dispensed with. Amendment to be carried out forthwith. 2. The only relief that is sought in the Petition is that the First and Second Respondents viz. the Director of Technical Education in the State Government and the State Government should take a decision on the proposal submitted by the Petitioners on 29 March 2011 for conducting polytechnic courses in the second shift for Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications and to grant approval for admission of students from academic year 2011-12. By the amendment which has been allowed relief has been sought against the AICTE as well. PNP 2 WP6757-3.10.sxw 3. During the course of the hearing, learned counsel has stated that at this stage., the Petitioners will not inter alia be entitled to admit students for the current academic year 2011-12 which has already commenced. However, learned counsel submits that the proposal should be processed in the meantime so that atleast by the commencement of the next academic year 2012-13 the Petitioners are in a position to know well in advance of the position of the matter without being required to file a fresh proposal. At this stage, according to Counsel appearing on behalf of the Petitioners an inspection has been conducted by the AICTE but the report is awaited. The only direction that can be issued in these proceedings is that the AICTE may take decision in accordance with law on the proposal submitted by the Petitioners expeditiously and preferably within a period of three months from today. We clarify that we have had no occasion to consider the merits of the entitlement of the Petitioners which shall be considered by the statutory authority in accordance with law. The Petition is accordingly disposed of. (Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, J.) (A. A. Sayed, J.)