THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.22009 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner is an Engineering College established few years ago. It is having various courses in it. An application was made to the All India Council for Technical Education (A.I.C.T.E.) seeking approval for introduction of Civil Engineering in this academic year. The application was processed and approval was accorded vide proceedings, dated 22.09.2009. This was followed by a G.O. issued by the Government. The respondents have arranged for the centralised admission and counselling for all the Engineering Colleges in the State. The first phase of counselling has taken place in the month of July, and the second phase in the months of August and September, 2009. The third phase took place between 16th and 23rd of September, 2009. However, the counselling was restricted only to those Colleges/Courses, which were already approved by the A.I.C.T.E and included in the list. Since the Civil Engineering branch of the petitioner institute was not included in the list of approved Colleges/Courses, counselling did not take place for that. Even after the third phase of counselling was conducted, quite number of seats remained unfilled. Therefore, the respondents accorded permission to the respective institutions to fill the vacant seats, through the process of spot admission in accordance with the guidelines stipulated therefor. The grievance of the petitioner is that the Civil Engineering branch introduced by it was not included in the list of Colleges/Courses for the counselling nor was it accorded permission to fill the seats through the process of spot admission. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. In view of the peculiar circumstances in which the petitioner is placed, time was granted to the learned Standing Counsel to obtain instructions in this regard. The second respondent itself addressed a letter to the Government seeking permission with a request to accord permission to the institutions to fill the seats in the Courses approved by the A.I.C.T.E. at a later stage, through the process of spot admission. Further, no orders have been passed so far. The last date for spot admission is prescribed as 31.10.2009. The petitioner cannot wait any longer and the entire infrastructure arranged for the Civil Engineering Courses should go waste for this year. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing that it shall be open to the petitioner to fill the seats in Civil Engineering branch for the current academic year, through the process of spot admission, strictly in accordance with the norms stipulated by the Government for this purpose. It is also directed that the petitioner shall not be entitled to admit any candidates, who have already been admitted in any other courses in the same institution or in other institutions. This exercise shall be completed by 06.11.2009. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:30.10.2009 Note: Issue cc tomorrow. (B/o) kdl