JUDGMENT :

M.R. SHAH, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 10.09.2018 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital in Special Appeal No. 144/2014, by which the Division Bench of the High Court has dismissed the Special Appeal preferred by the State of Uttarakhand and others and has confirmed the judgment and order dated 04.04.2014 passed by the learned Single Judge in Writ Petition No. 2464 of 2013, by which the learned Single Judge quashed the order dated 16.07.2013 of the State Government by which the State Government opined/decided not to grant recognition to the new B.Ed. Colleges and consequently directed the National Council for Teachers Education (for short ‘NCTE’) to take appropriate decision on the application of respondent No. 1 to increase the seats to B.Ed. course, the State of Uttarakhand has preferred the present appeal.

2. Respondent No. 1 herein-original writ petitioner-Nalanda College of Education, Dehradun (for short ‘College’) was granted recognition for B.Ed. course of one year duration with an annual intake of 100 students by the NCTE under Section 14(1) of the NCTE Act on 22.02.2008. Afte