1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR WRIT PETITION NO.5338 OF 2008 (Maha-Vidarbha Bahuuddeshiya Shaikshanik Sanstha vs. State and another) ___________________________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. CORAM : D.D. SINHA AND A.P. BHANGALE, JJ. DATED : JANUARY 19, 2009 Heard Shri Khade, learned Counsel for the petitioner, Mrs. Dangre, learned Additional Government Pleader for the respondent no.1, and Shri Kulkarni, learned Counsel for the respondent no.2. Shri Khade, learned Counsel for the petitioner, states that petitioner submitted application to the respondent no.2 University dated 31.10.2007 seeking permission to start Arts, Commerce and Science College at Veltur, Tahsil Kuhi, District Nagpur. It is submitted that respondent University recommended the said proposal vide communication dated 6.2.2008 to the State Government for taking necessary action 2 under Section 82(5) of the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994. However, till this date, the State Government has not communicated its decision to the petitioner and, therefore, it is prayed that appropriate direction in this regard may be given. Mrs. Dangre, learned Additional Government Pleader for the respondent no.1, states that proposal of the petitioner has been rejected by the State Government by giving reasons and same will be furnished to the petitioner within a period of fifteen days from the date of communication of this order. In the backdrop of the above referred facts, we dispose of the petition with direction to the respondent no.1 to communicate reasons, on the basis whereof, proposal of the petitioner to start College came to be rejected, within a period of fifteen days from the date of communication of this order. The learned Additional Government Pleader shall communicate this order to the State Government forthwith. 3 Copy of this order, duly authenticated by the Court Sheristedar, be given to the learned Additional Government Pleader. JUDGE JUDGE khj