JUDGMENT :

The petitioner, namely, Malabar Educational and Charitable Trust, is running a Self-Financing B.Ed. Training College, with the approval granted by the National Council for Teacher Education and provisional affiliation granted by the 1st respondent Kannur University. The document marked as Ext.P1 is the proceedings of the 1st respondent University dated 25.05.2006 granting provisional affiliation to Malabar B.Ed. Training College, Kannur, for B.Ed. Course with an intake of 75 students, for the academic year 2005-06. The petitioner has filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of certiorari to quash Ext.P2 notification dated 30.11.2020 issued by the 1st respondent University, whereby applications are invited for starting new colleges (except engineering/medical and allied subjects) from co-operative sector alone, during the academic year 2021-22. As per Ext.P2 notification, the last date for receipt of applications along with necessary documents and application fee was on or before 31.12.2020, 5:00 p.m. The petitioner has also sought for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to permit it to make application for affiliatio