Alok Singh, J.

All these writ petitions are interconnected and involve identical question of facts and law, therefore, with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, all these writ petitions are heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

Undisputedly, petitioners of Writ Petition (M/S) No. 2552 of 2014 are students of Dolphin (P.G) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Science, Manduwala, Dehradun studying B.Sc. Medical Microbiology and Bachelor of Physiotherapy respectively; Dolphin (P.G) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Science, Manduwala, Dehradun is the writ petitioner in WPMS No. 2583 of 2014 while petitioners of other connected writ petitions are also paramedical institutes. To understand the controversy, facts of Writ Petition (M/S) No. 2583 of 2014 are being narrated.

Petitioner is a paramedical institute; on 26.2.2004, to run different paramedical courses, affiliation was granted to the petitioner/institute by the HNB Garwhal University (State University) under Section 37 of the UP State Universities Act, 1973; affiliation was granted initially only for one year; vide order dated 29.4.2008, again affiliation was granted for one year