COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT ISLAMIYA INTER COLLEGE THRU MAHMOOD ALAM Vs. STATE OF U.P. THRU PRIN SECY SECONDARY EDU LKO AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Shri Anand Mani Tripathi, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Sudeep Seth, Shri Balram Yadav and Shri Ramesh Pandey and others, learned counsels appearing for the petitioners in the matters and Shri Pankaj Patel, learned Addl. Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the opposite parties.

(2.) With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, as the common questions for allotment of examination centre for High School & Intermediate Examination-2017 are raised in the above said writ petitions, so they are being clubbed together and decided by a common judgement.

(3.) Imparting elementary and basic education is a constitutional obligation on the State as well as on the institution/college imparting education. When we talk of education, it means not only learning how to read and write alphabets or get mere information but it means to acquire knowledge and wisdom so that one may lead a better life and become a better citizen to serve the nation in a better way.