JUDGMENT

G.S. Singhvi, J. —

1. Leave granted.

2. The only question which needs consideration in these appeals is whether the appellants who had not been granted recognition by the Western Regional Committee of the National Council for Teacher Education and who did not get affiliation from the examining body in accordance with the provisions of the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 (for short, ‘the Act’) and the National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition, Norms and Procedure) Regulations, 2007 (for short, ‘the Regulations’) are entitled to question the order passed by the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench whereby recognition granted to over 290 institutions was cancelled.

3. With a view to achieve the object of planned and coordinated development for the teacher education system throughout the country and for regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in the teacher education system and for matters connected therewith, Parliament enacted the Act for the establishment of a Council to be called the National Council for Teacher Education (for short, “the NCTE”) with multifarious functions, powers and duties. Section 2(c) of the