Common Judgment: (Dilip B. Bhosale, ACJ.)

1. These ten Writ Appeals, filed by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (for short, ‘the University’), are directed against the common order dated 07.07.2015, whereby about 110 writ petitions, filed by different institutions/colleges imparting technical education, have been disposed of. In all the writ petitions, basically, the petitioners-institutions/colleges sought Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the University rejecting affiliation and communicating deficiencies for running different courses in B.Tech and M.Tech degree courses, as illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional.

2. Writ Petitions were disposed of issuing certain directions to All India Council for Technical Education (for short, ‘AICTE’) established under the provisions of All India Council for Technical Education Act, 1987 (for short, ‘AICTE Act’) and to the University established under the provisions of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Act, 2008 (for short, “JNTU Act”). We propose to make specific reference to those directions little later.

3. It would be relevant to notice the background against which the writ petitions were filed by different