JUDGMENT :

S.Manikumar, J.

Being aggrieved by the judgment dated 9.9.2020 passed by a learned single Judge of this Court in W.P.(C) No.18253 of 2020, instant writ appeal is filed.

2. Short facts leading to the filing of the writ petition are that, the petitioner is an educational institution conducting B.Ed course on the strength of the recognition granted by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). The course of B.Ed was converted to a two year course by the NCTE with effect from the academic year of 2015-2016 onwards. The NCTE issued an order granting recognition for the Course of two years duration with an annual intake of 100 students with two basic units. Though two units were permitted by the respondent, the petitioner was unable to fill in students even for one single unit and a request was preferred to the respondent to reduce the intake to one unit. The respondent issued an order after two years accepting the request and reducing the intake from two units to one unit w.e.f 2017-2018. As there was delay on the part of the respondent to consider the request for reduction of units, the petitioner admitted students to all the seats in both the units during the year 2017