M.M.PUNCHHI, J.

1. How do we interlace the competing claims of academic excellence and sports excellence in the field of reservation in favour of Sportsmen/Sportswomen, in the context of admissions in the three State Medical Colleges and two State Dental Colleges as per latest policy of the Punjab Government, is the pressing problem which requires solution at our hand.

2. We have two writ petitions, being, CWP Nos. 10623 and 10855 of 1989, which we dispose of by a common order. Though the respective petitioner in each case is different, the private respondents are common, the Principal, Medical College, Amritsar, being an additional respondent in CWP No. 10855 of 1989. The respective petitioners and the respondents are competitors; for the available seven seats reserved for Sportsmen/Sportswomen out of 350 seats in the five Colleges afore-referred to, being 2 per cent reservation. The contesting parties claim to possess B-Grade Certificates, and in quality of one holding preference over the other. We would not go into the intricate details thereof for the present but straightway go to the declared policy of the State Government with regard to the reservation as such. But be