Hon’ble Dilip Gupta, J.—This petition has been filed by persons, who have completed the Special Basic Teacher Certificate Course 2007 and 2008 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Special B.T.C’) on 27th September, 2011, for a direction upon the respondents to forthwith grant appointment to them as Assistant Teachers in Elementary Schools run by the Board of Basic Education U.P. Allahabad (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Basic Education Board’) in district Mathura without requiring the petitioners to pass the U.P. Teachers Eligibility Test (hereinafter referred to as the ‘U.P-TET’) to be conducted by the Board of High School and Intermediate Education (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Intermediate Education Board’) as a condition for grant of appointment as Assistant Teachers. The petitioners have, accordingly, sought the quashing of the Notification dated 23rd August, 2010 issued by the National Council for Teacher Education (hereinafter referred to as the ‘NCTE’) laying down the minimum qualifications for a person to be eligible for appointment as a teacher in Classes I to VIII in a School referred to in Section 2(n) of the Act, which amongst others, also provides that the pe