1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.5544 OF 2010 Sant Gadgebaba Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Kinwat, through its President, Pralhad s/o Vithalrao Ramtirthkar, Age 33 years, Occ. Social worker & Agriculturist, R/o Kinwat, Taluka Kinwat, District Nanded. ..... PETITIONER VERSUS 1. State of Maharashtra, through its Secretary, Department of School Education, Mantralaya, Mumbai – 32. 2. Director of Education, Maharashtra State, Pune. Fort, Mumbai – 1. ..... RESPONDENTS ..... Shri I.D. Maniyar, Advocate for the petitioner Shri S.K. Kadam, A.G.P. for respondents ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATED: 25th June, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER HARDAS, J.) : 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2 2. The petitioner contends in this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, that the proposal submitted by the petitioner on 12.5.2008 for opening of a new school is pending consideration with the respondents. In that light of the matter, therefore, we deem it appropriate to decide this petition finally at this stage. 3. We accordingly allow this petition and direct the respondents to decide the proposal, if pending, in accordance with law, within a period of two months from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 4. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) (P.V. HARDAS, J.)