CIVIL WRIT JURISDICTION CASE No.146 OF 1996 In the matter of an application under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India. … 1. Syed Shahab Nasiruddin, son of Late Syed Aminuddin,Secretary, Governing body of Soghra (Minority) College, Bihar Sharif. 2. Maniruzaman Ejazi, son of Late Manzar Ahmad Ejazi, Ex-Secretary and the present Member of the Governing Body of Soghra College Bihar Sharif. 3. Md. Maqsood Alam, son of S. Ahmad Mujtaba, Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology, Soghra College, Bihar Sharif. 4. Sudhir Kumar, son of Sri Hiralal, Lecturer, Dept. of Zoology, Soghra, College, Bihar Sharif. 5. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad, son of Abdul Ghafoor, Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, Soghra College, Bihar Sharif. 6. Devendra Pd. Singh, son of Prof. Indradeo Singh, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Soghra Coillege, Bihar Sharif. 7. Md. Asadullah Khan, son of Dr. Fahimuddin Khan,Lecturer, Dept. of History, Soghra College, Bihar Sharif. 8. Abdus Samad Ansari, son of Md. Babujaan, Lecturer, Dept. of Commerce, Soghra College, Bihar Sharif .. .. .. Petitioners. Vs. 1. The State of Bihar, 2. The Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Biharr, Patna. 3. The Additional Secretary to the Government, Department of Higher Education, Bihar, Patna .. .. .. .. ..Respondents. … For the petitioners : Mr. Tej Bahadur Singh, Senior Advocate, Mr. Brajesh Kumar and Mr.Gyan Shankar, Advocates. For the S t a t e : Mr. Ravi Kumar, J.C. to Government Pleader No. XV. P R E S E N T THE HON'BLE JUSTICE SMT. SHEEMA ALI KHAN S.A.Khan,J. The Governing Body of Soghra College, Bihar Sharif, Nalanda has filed the present writ petition claiming that they may be given full deficit grant. 2. The main ground for the aforesaid claim is that the State Government has since paid grant to Allama Iqbal College, Bihar 2 Sharif, Nalanda. It is submitted that although Soghra College fulfils the entire conditions for consideration of being given the grant, their case has been kept pending for years together. 3. While hearing this writ petition at the stage of admission, this court vide order, dated 6.2.1997 had observed that the petitioners’ college is entitled to equal treatment with similarly placed institutions. 4. On 29.8.2008 when this writ petition was taken up for hearing, the State counsel was directed to obtain instructions and file a supplementary counter affidavit. Accordingly, a supplementary counter affidavit has been filed, at paragraph no. 5 of which it has been stated that the deficit grant to Soghra College, Bihar Sharif is under consideration of the State Government. 5. In view of the stand taken by the State Government, I direct that the Secretary, Human Resource Development Department, Bihar should take a decision with respect to deficit grant to Soghra College, Bihar Sharif in view of the fact that similarly situated minority college, that is, Allama Iqbal College, Bihar Sharif has already been given the benefit of deficit grant by the Government, whereas the petitioner’s college has not been considered for the said benefit, although the petitioners’ college is equal to Allama Iqbal College in all respect which is apparent from the inspection report contained in Annexure ‘2’ of the writ petition. 6. The Secretary of the Department is directed to take a final decision with respect to deficit grant to Soghra College, Bihar 3 Sharif, Nalanda within a period of three months from the date of receipt / production of a copy of this order. This writ petition is disposed of with the aforesaid observations and directions. Patna High Court, November 17, 2007, N.A.F.R. / haque. (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)