V. S. SIRPURKAR, C J.

( 1 ) THIS writ petition, which is in the nature of Public interest Litigation, has been filed by two petitioners, who are the practising advocates of the Calcutta High Court and assert themselves as the responsible citizens with social obligations having duty to see that there is no violation of statutory provisions particularly in the field of education. They also give out a purpose of eradicating illegal, collusive and damaging activities of the university authorities in Calcutta University, Vidyasagar University, Burdwan University and Kalyani University in granting affiliation to number of unrecognized colleges in the State of West Bengal for running teacher training courses, which colleges have not obtained recognition from the National Council for Teacher education under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993. The petitioners have joined all the abovenamed universities as parties and also have further joined the individual colleges. Their concern shown for filing the petition is to save the students who would not be able to get a valid B. Ed, degree from the respondent colleges on account of the fact that the colleges in which they are ta

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