IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 04TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2019 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE KRISHNA S DIXIT WRIT PETITION Nos.36878-36892/2017 (EDN EX) BETWEEN VIVEK INDUSTRIAL TRAINING CENTRE (REG.) NO.3, RAMACHANDRAPPA BUILDING, KETHAGANAHALLI ROAD, NEAR HOUSING BOARD, BIDADI, BANGALORE RURAL DISTRICT-562109, REPRESENTED BY ITS PRINCIPAL, MR. C. B. SRIHARI, S/O. C.D. BALAJI, AGED ABOUT 45 YEARS, RESIDING AT NO.268, 6TH CROSS, BADRAPPA LAYOUT, BANGALORE-560094. ... PETITIONER (BY SRI. VIJAY SHETTY B, ADV.) AND 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA REPRESENTED BY PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING, VIDHANA SOUDHA, BENGALURU-560001.
2. STATE OF KARNATAKA REPRESENTED BY ITS UNDER SECRETARY SKILL DEVELOPMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
THESE WRIT PETITIONS ARE FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 & 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, PRAYING TO DIRECT THE R-3 AND 4 HEREIN TO CONSIDER THE AFFILIATION OF THE PETITONER INSTITUTE FOR THE YEAR 2014-16 IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW IMMEDIATELY ENABLING THE PETITIONER INSTITUTE TO ENABLE ITS STUDENTS/TRAINEES, THEY a}.ANRUN.K b]BHARATHA A.S., c]CHETHAN.L., d]HARISH.K. e]HEMANTH WODEYAR B.V, f]KARTHIK.N. g]KIRANA.N, h KOUSHIK.K. i] MAHESH.V j]MAHESH KUMAR.V. k]PAVAN KUMAR.R. l]PUNEETH KUMAR.V. m]SHEKAR.R.H. n]SUNIL.M o]SWAMY T.P. TO WRITE THE EXAMIANTIONS AS PER ANNEXURE-A ETC.
THESE WRIT PETITIONS COMING ON FOR ‘PRELIMINARY HEARING IN ‘B’ GROUP’ THIS DAY, THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING:
ORDER In this writ petition, the petitioner institution has sought for a direction to the respondent No.3 and 4 to consider its claim for the grant of affiliation for the academic year 2014-2016 and thereby to enable the petitioner institution to permit its student to write the examinations in terms of the Government Order dated 01.06.2017 at Annexure-A.
2. After service of notice the official respondents have entered appearance through the learned Addl. Govt. Advocate Smt. Pramodhini Kishan and have filed the Statement of Objections on 12.09.2017 resisting the petition prayers inter-alia on the ground that the petitioner had approached this court earlier in W.P. Nos.46007- 46022/2016 and had suffered a judgment dated 23.08.2016 wherein it has been specifically recorded that the petitioner institution had not applied for affiliation in time and that petitioner was not entitled to the relief for withholding a particular information.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioner has now placed on record a Govt. Circular dated 23.08.2016 the relevant part whereof reads as under:-
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4. The learned counsel banking upon the text reproduced above submits that even the institutions which did not have the affiliation are also entitled to the benefit of the said circular as has been extended to other similarly circumstanced institutions and that there is no reason to treat the case of the petitioner in a step motherly way.
5. The learned Addl. Govt. Advocate Smt.
Promodhini Kishan vehemently contends that the aforesaid circular contemplates only such of the institutions which did have affiliation and not otherwise. This submission may not be correct going by the text reproduced above which specifically contemplates the “institutions sans affiliation” during the particular period. However, there is force in the submission of the learned Govt. counsel that the other credentials have to be ascertained by the committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner as prescribed in the said circular itself, to grant benefit thereof to the petitioners.
6. In the above circumstances, this writ petition succeeds in part; a Writ of Mandamus issues to the respondent No.3 to consider the case of the petitioner for availing the benefit under the circular dated 23.08.2016 (which is now placed on record) and also the Govt. Order dated 01.06.2017 at Annexure-A to the writ petition within a period of eight weeks in accordance with law and further inform the petitioner of the result of such consideration, forthwith.
7. It is needless to mention that the official respondents may solicit any other information or document from the side of the petitioner for facilitating due consideration of its request.
Costs made easy.
Sd/- JUDGE Chs* CT-HR