Heard Mr. S. K. Agarwal, Senior Advocate and Mr. Rajendra Dobhal, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Vipul Sharma, Advocate and Mr. Harshpal Shekhon, Advocate for the petitioner, Mr. Paresh Tripathi, Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand and Mr. V. B. S. Negi, Assistant Solicitor General for the Union of India.

2. The petitioner before this Court is an Ayurvedic College which is being run by a trust known as Divya Yog Mandir (Trust). Ayurvedic colleges and institutions running in India are governed by an Act known as Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 (from herein referred to as IMCC Act). Under the said Act a body has been constituted known as Central Council of Indian Medicine (hereinafter referred to as CCIM), with its office at New Delhi. In order to run an Ayurvedic course, the petitioner had to get an approval from the said council i.e. CCIM. On 20.7.2009, CCIM granted for the first time approval to the petitioner to have an Ayurvedic course for the year 2009-10. The Ayurvedic course was known as Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (hereinafter referred to as BAMS). This approval was granted to the petitioner under Section 13 (A) of the