FGJudgment

BHAGWATI, J.:- The petitioner carries on business of printing, publishing and selling text books for use in Primary, Middle Schools and Higher Secondary classes in schools in the State of Madhya Pradesh. On 1st November, 1956; as a result of the reorganization of States under the States Reorganization Act, 1956, a new State of Madhya Pradesh was formed comprising of the territories of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh known as Mahakoshal area, the territories of the existing State of Madhya Bharat, excluding Sunal Tappa, Sironj Sub-Division on Kotah District in the existing State of Rajasthan and the territories of the existing States of Bhopal and Vindhya Pradesh. We are concerned in this petition mainly with Makakoshal and Madhya Bharat regions of the State of Madhya Pradesh and we shall, therefore, so far as any reference to the position obtaining prior to the reorganisation of the States is concerned, confine our attention only to those two regions. The school education in the State of Madhya Pradesh, and prior to the reorganization of the States, in the Mahakoshal and Madhya Bharat regions, has always been divided structurally in three stages, namely, Primary, Mid