RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J.

1. The jurisdiction of this Court is invoked by six petitioners who completed their Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, in distance mode, from the Institute of Advance Studies in Education University, Gandhi Vidya Mandir, Sardar Shahar, District Churu, Rajasthan, in the year 2005. Even before completing their Engineering Degree in distance mode, the petitioners had all joined service as Junior Engineers as they possessed the qualification of a Diploma in Engineering. A degree in Engineering would have enabled the petitioners to be considered for promotion, to the post of Assistant Engineer, in the quota earmarked for Graduates in Engineering.

2. The validity of the Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, obtained by the petitioners through distance mode, came up for consideration in Orissa Lift Irrigation Corporation v. Rabi Sankar Patro, (Judgment in Civil Appeal Nos. 17869-17870 of 2017 and batch dated 3.11.2017) wherein the Supreme Court observed that there was a distinction between a regular University, established under a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act, and an Institution Deemed to be University managed under the UGC Act; a Deemed to be Uni