This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India challenges the 'normalisation' policy in selection of candidates for admission to various professional courses in the reserved seats for Tripura, and also seeks a direction to the respondents to select candidates for said courses strictly on the basis of marks obtained at the qualifying examinations and treat the students of the Central Board of Secondary Education hereafter the Central Board at par with the students of the Tripura Board of Secondary Education hereafter the Tripura Board and other Boards.

2. Briefly, the facts are that the Government has reserved seats in different professional courses for students from Tripura. According to the petitioner, the seats are reserved by the Government of India, whereas the respondents say that some seats in addition have been obtained by the Government of Tripura, The selection is made by the Government of Tripura. The qualifying examination is the Higher Secondary Examination, i. e. 10+2 conducted by the Central Board of the Tripura Board or any other similar Board. The petitioner is an association of Guardians of the students for the 10 + 2 examination o