JUDGMENT

1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Suman Kumar, as also the learned counsel appearing for the Bihar School Examination Board, Sri Purnendu Singh and the learned counsel appearing for the National Council for Teacher Education, Sri Sunil Kumar Singh.

2. The present writ petition has been filed for directing the respondent authorities to grant affiliation to the petitioner College for the session 2016-2018 from the Bihar School Examination Board, Patna (hereinafter referred to as the 'BSEB'), for imparting D.El.Ed. courses.

3. The briefs facts of the case are that the petitioner College appears to have been established for imparting D.El.Ed. courses and had applied to the Respondent-National Council for Teacher Education (hereinafter referred to as the 'NCTE') for grant of recognition for conducting the D.El.Ed. Course, whereafter, the NCTE, finding that the petitioner college is fulfilling all the requisite norms, had, by an order dated 02.05.2016, granted recognition / permission to the petitioner College for conducting D.El.Ed. programme for two years duration with an intake of 100 students from the academic session 2016-2017 under Clause 7(16) of the NCTE