JUDGMENT :

K. VINOD CHANDRAN, J.

1. The writ petition is filed, as a Public Interest Litigation, to direct the respondent Nos. 4 to 7 to implement Clause 8 of Annexure-2 Guidelines, which is a scheme for Post Matric Scholarship to the students belonging to the Scheduled Caste for studies in India. The Guideline is for implementation of the scheme between 2020-21 to 2025-26 and is issued by the Government of India. Clause 8 of the Guidelines deals with issuance of Freeship Cards as defined under Clause 3(g). It is also alleged that without fully implementing the Guidelines issued by the Central Government, the State of Bihar has issued Annexure-8 whereby the maximum amount of Post Matric Scholarship, including tuition fees and other non-refundable fees payable to eligible beneficiaries under the Scheme, has been arbitrarily limited and in many instances not implemented.

2. A writ petition was filed earlier for the same relief, which was disposed of by Annexure-1 permitting the petitioner to withdraw the same and file a fresh petition with better particulars.

3. We have to immediately notice that the Guideline is for implementation of a Scheme framed by the Central Government; which is n