ORDER:

The petitioners seek writ of mandamus declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in not considering the representations dated 24.05.2021 and 25.05.2021 submitted by the petitioners to afford an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioners for the purpose of fixation of fee for the block period 2021-21 to 2022-23 for B.Ed courses, as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and unconstitutional and consequently direct the 2nd respondent to forthwith afford an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioners and to consider, process and notify the fee for the aforesaid block period.

2. Petitioners’ case succinctly is thus:

The 1st petitioner is an institution imparting training in B.Ed. Courses and it has got all the requisite approvals from AICTE, permissions from Government of Andhra Pradesh and affiliation from the University.

The right of management to establish and administer college including the right to fix the fee has been upheld by the Hon’ble Apex Court in a number of decisions such as TMA Pai v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481 : MANU/SC/0905/2002 and Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 6 SCC 697. While so the 2nd respondent issued notifica