( 1 ) THE petitioners in both these writ petitions are challenging the change of date of reckoning the minimum qualifying age of a child for admission to class-I in Kendriya Vidyalayas from 30th September to 1st April of the academic year and the impugned proceedings in F. No. 19-42 (G) /96-KVS (HR), dated 10-2-1997, as arbitrary, discriminatory, irrational, unjust and void being violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India. As an ancillary relief, a direction is sought for restoration of the status quo ante obtaining prior to the above proceedings.

( 2 ) PETITIONER No. 1 in Writ Petition No. 6116 of 1997 filed her affidavit in support of the writ petition. It is stated that Kendriya Vidyalayas of Central schools are run by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan, New Delhi, which is an atonomous body constituted by the Ministry of Human Resources development, Government of India, New Delhi, as a result of recommendations of the Second Pay Commission and they are affiliated to the central Board of Secondary Education (for short, C. B. S. E.), New Delhi, with a common syllabus and curriculum of studies. Main objectives of Kendriya vidyalayas are (1) to cater to the educational

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