( 1 ) THIS appeal has been preferred by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, its President and Secretary against the judgment of a learned single Judge of this Court. By the said judgment, the learned Judge made absolute the Rule Nisi issued on the application of the respondents Nos. 1, 2 and 3 under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

( 2 ) THE respondents Nos. 1 and 3 are the guardians of two students of Class VIII and the respondent No. 2 is the West Bengal Headmaster Association. In the Writ Petition, the said respondents who were the Writ Petitioners, challenged the validity of the revised history syllabus for Class VIII prescribed by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The case of the Writ Petitioners is that in the State of West Bengal, there are two types of schools, namely, one under the Central Board of Education, New Delhi, and the other under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The syllabi of the two groups of schools are different, but both of them are in conformity with the syllabus as framed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, hereinafter referred to as NCERT, an autonomous body under the M