IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4811 of 2008 NEZAMIA PUBLIC SCHOOL Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the Petitioner : M/s Arun Kumar & Bipin Kumar, Advocates For the State : AAG 9 For the CBSE : Mr Vinay Krishna Tripathy, Advocate ------- 6. 07.08.2008 Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Counsel for the State as also the learned Counsel for the CBSE. The petitioner is a minority institution. It desired to apply for affiliation to the Central Board of Secondary Education for Classes IX and X on the premise that it fulfilled the conditions for the same. However, to enable it to do so it required a No Objection Certificate from the State of Bihar authorities. An application to that effect was submitted on 3.8.2006 along with necessary documents. The State authorities simply sat tight over the matter unmindful that the issue was one or urgency regarding imparting of quality education to the next generation of citizens. The reminders of the institution before the State authorities still did not make the latter realise the importance or urgency of quality education. The petitioner then came to this Curt in the present writ application seeking directions against the State Government for issuance of NOC so that the career of the students studying in the school may not be jeopardized. The institution of the writ application also does not appear to have made the State respondents realise the gravity and the need to make quality education available to the children of the State. From the order sheet it is apparent that still the State respondents required three adjournments to shake them up into action. Today a supplementary affidavit has been filed by the State respondents that the NOC has been issued and sent to the Chairman CBSE on 31.7.2008. The casualness of the State respondents is apparent from the counter affidavit when they did not even bother to even suggest apology for the delay on their part affecting the career of the students. Counsel for the CBSE submits that all applications for affiliation are received online and not individually and separately. That last date for submission of the application for affiliation for 2009 sessions has ceased, the last date being 30.6.2008 for the same. This Court has already noticed the sorry state of affairs and the sordid manner in which the State of Bihar has dealt with such an important issue. All that this Court can say at this stage is that to have the fond hope that CBSE shall keep all these aspects in mind when the petitioner applies in conventional manner before the CBSE and that neither the petitioner institution nor its students were at fault but shall ultimately have to bear the brunt of the lethargies of the State of Bihar, and take an appropriate decision thereafter expeditiously. The writ application stands disposed. Snkumar/- (Navin Sinha,J.)