Summarize the following court judgment. ition Nos. 9078 to 9106	 9025 43 of 1982	 24 & 35. 43 46 and 2839 of 1983. (Under article 32 of the Constitution of India). WITH Civil Appeal Nos. 3812 & 3813 of 1983. Appeals by Special leave from the Judgement and Order dated the 31st December	 1982 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in W.P. Nos. 6844 of 1982 & 6937 of 1982. AND (CMP. 13616	 16617	 22151	 22125 & 23486 of 1983). For the Appearing Petitioners in Writ Petitions: M.K. Ramamurthi	 Anil Dev Singh	 Subhash Sharma	 Satish Vig	 Shri Narain	 V.K. Pandita	 R.D. Upadhyay and E.C. Agarwala. 987 For the Appearing Respondents in Writ Petitions: G.L. Sanghi and Mr. S.N. Kacker Altaf Ahmad and Irfan Ahmad. A. Subba Rao for the Appellants in Civil Appeals. S.S. Ray	 Vineet Kumar	 T.V.S. Narasimhachari	 G.V.L. Narasimha Rao and Mrs. Urmila Sirur for the Respondents in Civil Appeals. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by PATHAK	 J. This Court has had occasion in the past to entertain the complaints of several young men and women who aspired to admission to the Medical Colleges of their States and had been wrongly denied admission thereto. In the writ petitions and civil appeals now before us	 the grievance voiced by the petitioners and the appellants takes us to a new category of cases and to a new dimension. They question the validity of nominations by the State Government of Jammu and Kashmir and the State Government of Andhra Pradesh of candidates to seats reserved in the Medical Colleges of other States. The civil appeals are directed against the judgment dated December 31	 1982 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissing writ petitions filed by the appellants. The Medical Council of India	 in its report on under graduate medical education	 recommended that with a view to encouraging national integration	 ten per cent of the seats in veery Medical College	 other than those where admissions were planned on an all India basis	 should be reserved	 on a reciprocal basis for students from other States. At the Joint Conference of the Central Council of Health and the Central Family Welfare Council	 held from December 28	 1977 to January 31	 1978	 the matter was considered and a resolution was passed recommending that five per cent of the seats in Medical Colleges should be reserved for candidates from other States on a reciprocal basis. After protracted correspondence between a number of State Governments	 the States of Andhra Pradesh	 Jammu and Kashmir	 Karnataka	 Kerala and Tamil Nadu agreed upon such an arrangement. It was decided that each of them would have the right to nominate candidates to seats reserved 988 in the Medical Colleges of the other participating States. We are concerned herewith nominations made by the State Government of Jammu and Kashmir and the State Government of Andhra Pradesh. Twenty two of the thirty nominations made by the State Government of Jammu and Kashmir for the year 1982 83 have been challenged in these writ petitions and all the nominations made by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh have been assailed in the associated Civil Appeals. The petitioners in the writ petitions and the appellants in the appeals were candidates for admission to the M.B.B.S. course of studies in the Medical Colleges of their respective States	 and not having succeeded in that object	 they claim that they should have been properly considered for nomination by their State Governments to the seats reserved in the Medical Colleges outside their home States because they have secured higher marks in the qualifying examination than the nominated candidates. They urge that the nominations actually made by the State Governments have been made in their absolute and arbitrary discretion	 without reference to any objective criterion	 or any controlling norms or guidelines. They also allege that the nominations have been influenced by the personal relationship of the candidates to persons in the ruling political party or to Government officers in positions of high authority. The position taken by the Jammu and Kashmir Government and by the Andhra Pradesh Government is that to serve the objective of national integration the selection of a candidate has to be determined not merely by the marks obtained by him in the qualifying examination but also by his ability to project an appropriate image of the culture of his home State in the State to which he is nominated. It is submitted that no objective criterion is possible in that context	 and the selection must perforce be left to the absolute and unfettered choice of the State Government. The Andhra Pradesh Government relies on G.O.M. No. 508	 M & H dated July 27	 1979	 which brings the scheme into effect from the academic year 1979 80. It expressly provides that the selection of candidates for such nominations is excluded from the purview of the Selection Committees constituted for admission to the M.B.B.S. Course in the States. At the outset	 we may dispose of an objection taken on behalf of the respondents. It is pointed out that the petitioners in the writ petitions and the appellants in the civil appeals applied merely for 989 admission to the Medical Colleges of the home State and have not alleged anywhere that they applied for nomination to a seat in a Medical College outside the State. It is urged that inasmuch as the scheme of nominations to Medical Colleges outside the State is distinct altogether from the scheme of admissions to Medical Colleges within the State the petitioners and the appellants are not entitled to question the validity of those nominations. We are referred to Chitra Ghosh and Another vs Union of India and Others.(1) In the civil appeals before us	 however	 we find that some of the appellants did apply for nomination to a seat in a Medical College outside the State. Besides	 the Andhra Pradesh High Court has elaborately considered the question on its merits	 and it seems desirable in the circumstances to pronounce our opinion on the controversy. The objection is overruled. For the purpose of these cases	 we shall proceed on the assumption that national integration	 which is undeniably in itself a highly commendable and laudable objective	 will be effectively served by a policy encouraging the admission of candidates of one State to seats in the Medical Colleges of another State. After considering the matter carefully	 we confess	 we are unable to subscribe to the view that the selection of candidates for that purpose must remain in the unlimited discretion and the uncontrolled choice of the State Government. We think it beyond dispute that the exercise of all administrative power vested in public authority must be structured within a system of controls informed by both relevance and reason relevance in relation to the object which it seeks to serve	 and reason in regard to the manner in which it attempts to do so. Wherever the exercise of such power affects individual rights	 there can be no greater assurance protecting its valid exercise than its governance by these twin tests. A stream of case law radiating from the now well known decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi vs Union of India(2) has laid down in clear terms that. Article 14 of the Constitution is violated by powers and procedures which in themselves result in unfairness and arbitrariness. It must be remembered that our entire constitutional system is founded in the Rule of Law	 and in any system so designed it is impossible to conceive of legitimate power which is arbitrary in character and travels beyond the bounds of reason. To contend that 990 the choice of a candidate selected on the basis of his ability to project the culture and ethos of his home State must necessarily be left to unfettered discretion of executive authority is to deny a fundamental principle of our constitutional life. We do not doubt that in the realm of administrative power the element of discretion may properly find place	 where the statute or the nature of the power intends so. But there is a well recognised distinction between an administrative power to be exercised within defined limits in the reasonable discretion of designated authority and the vesting of an absolute and uncontrolled power in such authority. One is power controlled by law countenanced by the Constitution	 the other falls outside the Constitution altogether. Proceeding from there	 it is evident that if the State Government desires to advance the objective of national integration it must adopt procedures which are reasonable and are related to the objective. In this Age of Reason	 all law must measure upto that standard	 and necessarily so also must all executive acts. Viewed in this context	 the claim of the State Government in these cases that the nature of the objective and the means adopted to serve it entitle it legitimately to vest in itself an absolute power in choosing candidates for nomination cannot be allowed to prevail. It is incumbent on the State Government to adopt a criterion or restrict its power by reference to norms which	 while designed to achieve its object	 nevertheless confine the flow of that power within constitutional limits. We are not convinced that an adequate system of standards cannot be devised for that purpose. Tested on the touchstone of our constitutional values	 the claim of the State Government to the content of the power assumed by it must	 in our opinion	 be declared invalid. Now	 the selection of an appropriate procedure lies ordinarily within the domain of administrative policy	 and when the objective can be fulfilled by more than one constitutionally valid method	 the selection must be left to administrative choice. The Courts are generally concerned merely with the legal validity of the choice made. We think it desirable	 therefore	 to leave it to the Medical Council of India to formulate a proper constitutional basis for determining the selection of candidates for nomination to seats in Medical Colleges outside the State. The problem is one which needs to be tackled at the national level	 having regard to the objective which is sought to be achieved and to the circumstance that it calls for reciprocal arrangements between Medical Colleges throughout the 991 country. Until a policy is so formulated and adopted and concrete criteria are embodied in the procedure to be selected	 we direct that nominations be made by following the procedure of selecting candidates strictly on the basis of merit	 the candidates nominated being those	 in order of merit	 immediately next below the candidates selected for admission to the Medical Colleges of the home State. Before concluding it is desirable to advert to the contention raised on behalf of the respondents that as the State Government finances medical education within the State it is entitled to exercise an absolute discretion in the nomination of candidates to seats in Medical Colleges outside the State	 specially when the nomination is part of a reciprocal arrangement between the different States. In our opinion	 the contention cannot be regarded as valid in view of what has been laid down now by this Court in Ramana Dayaram Shetty vs The International Airport Authority of India and Ors.(1) Considerable and vehement argument has been addressed on behalf of the petitioners and the appellants that we should make an order revoking the nominations already made by the Jammu and Kashmir Government and the Andhra Pradesh Government. We do not propose to do so. The State Government proceeded in the bona fide belief that the procedure adopted by it was just and proper	 the basis being one which appears to have been uniformly adopted by all the participating States. Besides	 the candidates nominated have already covered a substantial part of their course of studies. These considerations considered cumulatively dissuade us from interfering with the nominations already made. In the result	 we allow the writ petitions and the civil appeals insofar that the principle adopted by the State Governments of nominating candidates in their absolute and unfettered choice to seats in Medical Colleges outside the State is declared invalid. The Medical Council of India is directed to formulate a proper constitutional basis for determining the selection of candidates for nomination to seats in Medical Colleges outside the State in the light of the observations contained in this judgment. Until a policy is so formulated and concrete criteria are embodied in the procedure selected	 the nominations shall be made by selecting candidates strictly on the basis of merit	 the candidates nominated being those	 992 in order of merit	 immediately below the candidates selected for admission to the Medical Colleges of the home State. The judgment dated December 31	 1982 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court is modified accordingly. In the circumstances of these cases	 we make no order as to costs. A copy of this judgment and order shall be sent to the Medical Council of India. H.S.K. Appeals & Petition partly allowed.

With a view to encourage national integration	 a few States including respondent states agreed upon an arrangement by which a certain percentage of the seats in medical colleges was reserved for candidates from other States on a reciprocal basis. In the year 1982 83 the respondent States made some nominations under the above arrangement. The validity of these nominations was challenged in these writ petitions and civil appeals on the ground	 inter alia	 that these nominations had been made by the State Governments in their absolute and arbitrary discretion	 without reference to any objective criterion	 or any controlling norms or guidelines. Partly allowing the writ petitions and the appeals	 ^ HELD: The principle adopted by the State Governments of nominating candidates in their absolute and unfettered choice to seats in Medical Colleges outside the State is invalid. But the nominations already made will not be affected. [991 F G; E] The exercise of all administrative power vested in public authority must be structured within a system of controls informed by both relevance and reason relevance in relation to the object which it seeks to serve	 and reason in regard to the manner in which attempts to do so. article 14 of the Constitution is violated by powers and procedures which in themselves result in unfairness and asbitrariness. There is no doubt that in the realm of administrative power the element of discretion may properly	 find place	 where the statute or the nature of the power intends so. But there is a well recognised distinction between an administrative power to be exercised within defined limits in the reasonable discretion of designated authority and the vesting of an absolute and uncontrolled power in such authority. One is power controlled by law countenanced by the Constitution	 the other falls outside the Constitution altogether. Proceeding from there	 it is evident that if the State 986 Government desires to advance the objective of national integration it must adopt procedures which are reasonable and are related to the objective. In this Age of Reason	 all law must measure upto that standard	 and necessarily so also must all executive acts. [989 E F; 989 G; 990 A D] In the present cases	 viewed in this context and tested on the touchstone of our constitutional values	 the claim of the State Government that the nature of the objective and the means adopted to serve it entitle it legitimately to vest in itself an absolute power in choosing candidates for nomination is to deny a fundamental principle of our constitutional life and cannot be allowed to prevail. [990 D E] Chitra Ghosh and Anr. vs Union of India and Ors. 	 ; 	 420; Maneka Gandhi vs Union of India	 [1978] 2 S.C.R. 621; and Ramana Dayaram Shetty vs The International Airport Authority of India & Ors.	 	 referred to. The Medical Council of India is directed to formulate a proper constitutional basis for determining the selection of candidates for nomination to seats in Medical Colleges outside the State in the light of the observations contained in this judgment. Until a policy is so formulated and concrete criteria are embodied in the procedure selected	 the nominations shall be made by selecting candidates strictly on the basis of merit	 the candidates nominated being those	 in order of merit	 immediately below the candidates selected for admission to the Medical Colleges of the home State. [991 G H; 992 A]