Hon’ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.—In all these writ petitions the facts and legal issues involved are same, hence as agreed by learned Counsel for the parties, have been heard together and are being decided by a common judgment.

2. The facts, in brief, giving rise to these petitions are that the State Council of Education Research and Training (hereinafter referred as ‘SCERT’) issued a notification on 22.2.2004, pursuant to the State Government orders dated 23/24.1.2004 inviting applications from the candidates possessing B.Ed./LT./B.P.Ed/D.P.Ed. qualification as institutional candidates from the college/training colleges duly recognized and approved by National Council of Teachers Education (hereinafter referred to as ‘NCTE’) for admission to “Special B.T.C. Course-2004”. The petitioners in all these writ petitions have passed one year’s Diploma in Physical Education (in short ‘D.P.Ed’) from Sri Narheji Mahavidyalay, Ballia (hereinafter referred to as ‘the College’) between 1996-97 to 2001-02 and applied for admission to the said course. The candidature of the petitioners however has been rejected for the reason that D.P. Ed. course conducted by the College was never approved by