1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.6054 OF 2009 Tapi Parisar Shikshan Bahu Uddeshiya Sanstha Savkheda (Kh.) Taluka and District Jalgaon, Through its President Shri.Bharat S/o.Gokul Patil, Age-38 years, Occu-Agriculturist, R/o.Kinod, Tal.and Dist. Jalgaon PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra, through its Secretary, Primary Education Department, Maharashtra State, Mantralaya, Mumbai. 2. The Deputy Director of Education, Nashik Division, Nashik. 3. The Education Officer, (Primary), Zilla Parishad, Jalgaon. RESPONDENTS Mr.M.G.Deokate h/f. Mrs.S.D.Tambat (Dhumal), learned counsel for the petitioner. Mr.N.N.Jadhav, learned AGP for respondents. (CORAM : P.V.HARDAS, AND A.V.POTDAR, J.J.) DATE : 10/09/2009 2 ORAL JUDGMENT : (Per P.V.Hardas, J.) 1. At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks to delete respondent no.3. Leave granted. Deletion permitted at the risk of the petitioner. 2. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsels for the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 3. 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 decide the proposal of the petitioner dated 08/05/2008 for seeking re-cognition of the school by name New English Medium School, Kinod, Tal. And Dist. Jalgaon. 4. The petitioner had submitted the aforesaid proposal i.e. on 08/05/2008 seeking re-cognition/permission to run a Primary English Medium School under the name and style of New English Medium School at Kinod, Tal. And Dist. Jalgaon. The petitioner, according to him, had submitted a complete proposal and despite the passage of time, the respondents have not decided the same. 5. Since the proposal of the petitioner is pending consideration with the respondents, we deem it appropriate to decide this petition finally at this stage and accordingly direct the respondent no.1 to decide the pending proposal of the petitioner in accordance with Law 3 within a period of 8 weeks from today, and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 6. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. (A.V.POTDAR, J.) (P.V.HARDAS, J.) khs/SEP 2009/wp6054-09