JUDGMENT

Sashikanta Mishra, J. - The petitioner is an institution imparting education to students. It was established in the year 1993 and was registered on 20.03.2001 under the Societies Registration Act. The Siksha Vikash Samiti granted permission to the institution on 04.12.2008 to function in the name of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir. The institution started imparting teaching in classes-I to VIII being permitted by the Siksha Vikash Samiti. On 06.05.2015, the Director of Elementary Education, Odisha granted NOC in favour of several schools including the petitioner's school for running the same. Thereafter, the students regularly appeared in the examinations and in the year 2015, the institution submitted list of students of Class-III and Class-V to appear in the Scholarship Examination for the session 2015-16. The students were allowed by the Block Education Officer to appear in the examination and some of the students were also awarded with scholarship on 15.11.2016. The petitioner institution applied for certificate of recognition(COR) as required under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010 for the period from academic session 2017-18 to 2021-22, i