A.M. KHANWILKAR, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. By consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the matter was taken up for final hearing at the stage of admission itself.

2. All these Petitions are disposed of by this Common Judgment as the same involve common issues. All these Petitions are filed by non-minority institutions which are registered as public charitable trusts, taking exception to Government Resolution dated 20th July, 2009 on the basis of which the proposal submitted by each of these Petitioner institution for starting a primary, secondary or higher secondary school, as the case may be, has been treated as cancelled or rejected. It is the case of each of these Petitioners that pursuant to Government Circular dated 29th July, 2008 they submitted proposal(s) for starting primary, secondary and higher secondary schools on "permanent no grant basis" in "Marathi medium". It is asserted that their proposal was scrutinized by the Committees constituted at the District and State level and recommended to the State Government for approval. Along with the Petitioners, several other institutions had submitted th