ORDER :- The above writ petition has been filed praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to call for the records relating to the proceedings of the second respondent made in Letter No. 5000/CDC/2000, dated 10-2000 and quash the same and consequently direct the respondents to recognize the degree of the 4th respondent for all purposes including appointments, promotions, higher studies and for doing Ph. D. etc. with all consequential benefits.

2. Petitioners, numbering 68, are all B.E./B. Tech. graduates and are all working as Lecturers in various colleges and with permission from their respective colleges they joined the M.S. Degree Course (Computer Science, Electronics Control etc. systems and Information, Software System and Technological Operations) by distance education system of the BITS, Pilani (Rajasthan) and have completed the course also and when it came to the matter of recognition, the Director of Technical Education, by the impugned order, has informed the petitioners that the M.S. Degree awarded by BITS, Pilani through correspondence programme is not considered as equivalent degree to that of M.E. Degree awarded by the Tamil Nadu Universities. Challenging the s

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