The petitioners state that respondent No.2, namely The Alpha Foundation, is a Department of respondent No.1, namely The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI), which is an educational society established under the ICFAI University Act. They further state that respondent No.1-ICFAI, apart from imparting university education, also runs schools for imparting formal education to the down trodden in the name and style of "ICFAI Republic Schools" in several States, including the State of Andhra Pradesh, and that all these schools are recognized by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the A.P. Education Act, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as `the Education Act'). That respondent No.2, which is a Department of respondent No.1, looks after the day-to-day management of the said schools. Respondent No.2 entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Andhra Pradesh under public Private partnership programme.

2. Respondent No.2 conducts various) projects like, Health, Nutrition, Non-formal Education, vocational Training programmes etc. in the said schools. For the purpose of supervising and executing the said projects, he petitioners state that