1. The Director of Public Instruction published a "preliminary list" of areas where new High Schools were proposed to be opened during the year 1982-83: and Pallipurathussery (Vaikom) was one of the areas/ localities specified. The proposal was to sanction the opening of a Girls' High School. The Manager of a Girls' High School at Vaikom objected, and after considering all objections, Government decided to drop the proposal. In the "final list" approved by the Government, therefore, Pallipurathussery did not find a place. Aggrieved by this decision, the Manager of a Convent filed a petition for reviewing the final list. Government heard the matter and passed orders directing inclusion of the area in the final list. The convenors of a Pourasamithi at Pallipurathussery thereupon filed OP. No. 8873/83 challenging the said order, and a learned judge dismissed the OP. on the ground that the petitioners had no real interest in the matter, that they had suffered no injury and that having failed to object to the preliminary list at the initial stage, they were not entitled to question the final list as reviewed, at a later stage. This is what the learned judge said:

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