JUDGMENT

S.B. Sinha, J.-

Introduction :

The role of the State Government in the matter of identification of locations of proposed medical and dental colleges is the primal question involved in this batch of appeals, which arise out of a common judgment and order dated 8.11.2000 passed by a Full Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Appeal Nos. 1326-1332 and 1629 of 1999.

Factual Background :

2. As the said question is required to be answered keeping in view interpretation of the provisions of the Medical Council of India Act, Dental Council of India Act and the Regulations framed thereunder, it is not necessary to take into consideration the factual martix of the matter in great details. Suffice it to point out that by reason of two Government orders being G.O.Ms. No. 128 dated 30.4.1998 and G.O. Ms. No. 214 dated 23.6.2000, the Government of Andhra Pradesh approved 13 locations for establishment of medical colleges and 18 for dental colleges. The said orders were issued in terms of recommendations of a committee comprising of Justice S.V. Maruthi, a the then sitting judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Vice-Chancellor of the NTR University of Health Sciences and the Direct