Since the common issues are involved in these matters, the same are heard and disposed of by this common order.

2. The action of the respondents in announcing the admissions of the students under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (‘RTE’ Act, for short), both at the LKG and 1st std level in the petitioners-Educational institutions is challenged in these petitions.

3. The petitioners’ schools were affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education and were granted permanent recognition without any grant, by the Commissioner of Public Instructions, Bangalore. These institutions are imparting preprimary and elementary education. Respondents have allotted the students to the petitioners-Educational institutions under RTE quota both to LKG and 1st std levels. The Government of Karnataka has issued the Government Order dated 06.03.2017 (Annexure-Q) under Section 35(2) of the RTE Act prescribing the mode for the determination of the seats in a private school for admission of children belonging to disadvantaged group and weaker Section under Section 12(1)(c) and the proviso thereof to the RTE Act. In W.P. No.15631/2017, the petitioner has challenged the s