Per Rajiv Sharma, J.-The present petition has been filed by the association of the Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) through its President. The necessary resolution was passed by the association authorizing the President to file the present petition on 19.11.2008. The petitioner’s association is seeking direction to the respondents to hold admission test for admitting the students in State Council for Vocational Training courses for the session 2007-08 and also to consequently sponsor the candidates to the Vocational Centres approved by the State Council for Vocational Training.

2. Mr. Shrawan Dogra, Advocate appearing on behalf of the petitioner has strenuously argued that once the institutions represented by the petitioner’s association have been permitted to run the vocational courses, the State Government is estopped from changing the rules in the middle of the game. In other words, his submission is that once the members of the petitioner’s association have spent huge amount for opening the vocational centres as per the norms prescribed by the State Government, it is incumbent upon the State to hold admission test and thereafter sponsor the candidates to the members