- (1.) Dr. T.M.A. Pai Foundation, petitioner-2 herein, is a registered Trust. This Trust had established and is administering the Manipal Institution of Technology (petitioner No.1) which is an Engineering College imparting teaching in various branches of Engineering and is hereinafter referred to as "the College". This college has been declared as a Konkani speaking linguistic minority institution within the meaning of Art. 30 of the Constitution of India.
(2.) The present writ petitions have been filed by the petitioners for quashing the Government Order dated 24-8-1994 (Annexure-A) whereunder the Government has fixed total and course wise intake of the linguistic/religious minority institutions of the State, and for a further direction to the respondents - Director of Technical Education and the Bangalore University to approve the admissions made by the management of the College against NRI quota during the academic year 1994-95 in different courses of Bachelor of Engineering Degree.
(3.) Since the present and several other writ petitions of the like nature, there involved ascertainment of certain facts like the intake capacity of the colleges and the actual admissions made therein through the CET Cell and by the Managements as also some other connected matters, it was found convenient to get a report on these aspects from the Education Secretary. Accordingly, as directed by me under order dated 1-12-1995 in writ petition Nos. 23729-31 of 1995, learned Education Secretary-II, after giving reasonable opportunity to the college managements of placing on record all the relevant documents and hearing them, as also after taking into account the official records in this connection, has submitted his report dated 11-12-1995 setting out all necessary details required for disposal of this set of writ petitions. College managements have not disputed these basic facts. But so far as the present College is concerned, the Education Secretary has reported that the management has failed to produce the details in respect of all the students admitted by it under the purported NRI Quota.;