1. By consent, all the writ petitions are taken up for final disposal. Since the issue involved in all these writ petitions, is similar, they are disposed of by this common order.

2. For the sake of convenience, the facts leading to the filing of W.P(MD)No.12240 of 2016, alone are narrated hereunder:

2.1. The petitioner is the Correspondent of St. John's Matric Higher Secondary School, Kochadai, Madurai. According to the petitioner, it is a recognised and Unaided Minority Educational Institution run and administered by "the Congregation of Claretian Missionaries" - a Society registered under Society Registration Act in Registration No. 33/1986 at Maduari. Later, it was transferred to central Chennai SI. No.141/1996.

2.2. It is claimed by the petitioner that the members of the said Society are all priests and they have dedicated their lives for charitable purpose by providing education to the socially and economically backward children. The Congregation is the Educational Agency of the School. The petitioner school was initially established as a Primary School in the year 2002 and thereafter, in 2005, it was upgraded as a Middle School and as Higher Secondary School in the year