PER B. H. MARLAPALLE, J.

1. Writ Petition No. 6408 of 2006 came to be filed by Shri Satish Dattatray Nadgauda challenging the legality and propriety of the Government Resolutions dated 25/11/2005 and 29/7/2006 and these GRs pertain to the revised criteria for regularizing the posts other than teachers in the private partial/whole time granted secondary, higher secondary schools, classes of higher secondary/Junior Colleges, military schools in the State of Maharashtra. During the course of hearing of this petition, notices were issued to the State Government as to why the English translations of these GRs were not made available as is required under Article 348 of the Constitution of India. The Chief Secretary filed an affidavit and pointed out that the State Legislature has enacted the Maharashtra Official Languages Act, 1964 and Marathi is the language used for “all official purposes” referred to in Article 345 of the Constitution. It was also pointed out that in compliance with the requirements of Article 348(3) of the Constitution, the Governor of Maharashtra had issued an order on 30/9/1995 authorizing the Secretary or his delegate in the Department of Law and Judici