Jayant Patel, J.—The short facts of the case appear to be that the petitioner for the purpose of opening a College for imparting education in Master of Education (M.Ed.), which is a Post Graduation Course in the field of education, applied to National Council for Teacher Education (hereinafter referred to as “NCTE” for short) for grant of recognition. The petitioner is a self-financed college. Ultimately, on 30.05.2007 the recognition was granted on 11.06.2007 and thereafter final recognition is granted vide order dated 26.06.2007 to the petitioner. As per the petitioner, it had applied to the Gujarat University for affiliation vide application dated 19.06.2007 onwards and as there was no response and the academic year was to begin of 2007-08, the petitioner has preferred the present petition for the appropriate directions to the respondent University to grant affiliation for M.Ed. College.

2. It appears that when the matter was at the interim stage, as no interim direction was given in the present petition, the LPA was preferred and the Division Bench of this Court (Coram : Y.R. Meena, C.J. and (Smt.) Abhilasha Kumari, J.) vide order dated 08.10.2007 had directed the Univer