R.S. Chauhan, J.

1. Aggrieved by the order dated 15.5.2013 passed by the Principal Secretary to the Government, Higher Education, whereby the learned Principal Secretary has denied the benefit of grant-in-aid to the petitioner, the petitioner has approached this Court.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner has completed M.A. in Hindi subject from Mysore University. On 1.6.1996, she was appointed as a Hindi lecturer in an unaided post. Since the date of appointment she is teaching Hindi in the Home Science department, as well as, for B.A. and B.Com., classes. According to the petitioner, she was appointed as a part-time lecturer in the year 1996-97, but has a full work load and has been working as a lecturer on a regular basis. Since the petitioner has been working for a long time in the Kamala Nehru Memorial National College for Women, Shimoga, she has been repeatedly submitting representations, praying that the post for which she is working should be admitted to grant-in-aid. One such representation, dated 3.5.2012, was addressed to the Principal Secretary and to the Commissioner of Higher Education. Further, according to the petitioner, the Home Science cour