IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CIVIL WRIT JURISDICTION CASE No.7539 of 1997 ============================================ 1.DR.SACHIDANAND SINGH, S/O LATE NARAIN SINGH, TEACHER AND PRESIDENT OF TEACHER ASSOCIATION OF CHANDRASHEKHAR BASIB BANKE COLLEGE, HATHIRWAN. 2.SANJAY PRASAD, S/O RAM KESHWAR PRASAD, LIBRARIAN AND PRESIDENT OF NON TEACHING NUION OF CHANDRASHEKHAR NASIB NANKE COLLEGE, HATHIRWAN, SHEIKHPURA. ……………… Petitioner/s(s) Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR. 2.THE COMMISSIONER CUM SECRETARY, HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 3.THE DIRECTOR, HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA. 4.THE DEPUTY SECRETARY, HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVT. OF BIHAR, PATNA. 5.TILKAMANJHI BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY THROUGH ITS VICE CHANCELLOR. 6.THE REGISTRAR, TILKAMANJHI BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY. ……………Respondent/s(s) ============================================ 08/ 12.07.2011 Having heard counsel for the petitioners and counsel for the State as with regard to the following limited relief:- “That this is an application for issuance of an appropriate writ/direction for quashing the order contained in Memo no. 408 dated 4th March, 1997 passed by respondent no. 4 by which the annual grants in aid of Rs. 3,00,000/-=(Rs. Three Lakh) given to Chandrashekhar Nasib Banke College, Hathirawan sheikhpura (hereinafter referred to as ‘the college’) has been stopped. The petitioners further pray for immediate release of grant in aid of Rs. 3,00,000/- to the college.” this Court is of the opinion that in the changed scenario when the State Government has itself taken a decision to do 2 away with the policy of the Vitt Rahit Shiksha ¼foRr jfgr f'k{kk½ in the affiliated colleges, and that the petitioner’s institution was already selected for release of grant in aid, the respondents should reconsider their decision and pass a fresh order as with regard to the claim of the petitioners institution to receive grant in aid. As a matter of fact, this Court has to remit the matter back only because no counter affidavit has been filed in this case in last fourteen years despite repeated indulgence given to the counsel for the State. In that view of the matter, this Court would expect that an appropriate decision as with regard to release of grant in aid to the petitioners would be taken within a period of six months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. With the aforementioned observations and direction, this application is disposed of. Ranjan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J)