R.Jayasimha Babu, J.

Hindustan Engineering Training Centre (HETC) Educational Society is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and runs six educational institutions. The object of the society is to impart higher education in medical, dental, engineering and other subjects. In the year 1997 it resolved to start a new dental college in the name of Hindustan Institute of Dental Science at Karapakkam, in Kancheepuram District near Chennai.

2. On 07.02.2001 it applied to the Government of India under Section 10-A which was introduced with effect from 27th August 1992 into the Dentists Act, 1948 by Act 30 of 1993, and in accordance with the Establishment of New Dental Colleges Regulations, framed by the Dental Council in exercise of it's powers under Section 10-A read with 20 of the Dentists Act. That proposal was returned to the petitioner on the 23rd of February, 2001 pointing out certain deficiencies and after some of those deficiencies were removed, the proposal was again returned on 15th June 2001, inter alia, on the ground that the Essentiality Certificate from the State Government and letter of affiliation from the University have not been furnished. Th