APHC010057362025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3330]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

THURSDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE TARLADA RAJASEKHAR RAO WRIT PETITION NO: 3144/2025 Between:

Thandra Paparaya College Of Education ...PETITIONER AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT(S)

Counsel for the Petitioner:

1. TAGORE YADAV YARAGORLA Counsel for the Respondent(S):

1. GP FOR EDUCATION The Court made the following order This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the following relief:

“to issue an appropriate writ more in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the 2^nd Respondent, Regulatory Commission in not determining the fee structure for the block period 2024-25 to 2025-26 for B.Ed., course being offered by the Petitioner Institution on the ground that the Petitioner did not pay the on time processing fee and submitted the data as notified by the 2^nd Respondent despite the knowledge that affiliation has been granted only on 31- 01-2025 and the representations made by the Petitioners on 03-01-2025 has not been considered, as being arbitrary illegal and violative of Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution of India and violative of A.P.Educational Institutions (Regulations of Admissions and Prohibition of Capitation Fee) Act 1983 and the Andhra Pradesh Higher Education Regulatory and Monitoring Commission Act and Rules Regulations framed therein and consequently direct the A. 2nd Respondent to determine and notify the fee structure for the Petitioner institutions and B. 3rd and 6th Respondents to permit the Petitioners to submit the applications and upload the documents, physically, in terms of the order dated 27-01-2025, and issue such other order or orders…”

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents.

3. During hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the respondents would submit that in similar set of circumstances, this Court passed an order in W.P.No.15088 of 2024 dated 22.07.2024 and requested this Court to issue similar directions in this Writ Petition also.

4. In view of the specific request made by learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondents, let there be a similar order passed in W.P.No.15088 of 2024 dated 22.07.2024 in this case also.

5. Hence, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the following directions:

i. The petitioner(s)/college(s) is/are directed to furnish all the data as required by the Commission for fixing the fee for the block period 2024-25 to 2025-26 along with representation (if not submitted) by paying the processing fee with penalty as suggested in the notification within a period of one week from today.

ii. On receipt of the same, the Commission is directed to process the representation of the petitioner(s,) immediately on or before commencement of the upcoming counseling.

iii. The State and Commission are directed to receive the relevant data submitted by the petitioner(s)/college(s) as per the notification and the Commission shall tentatively fix the fee that can be collected by the college(s), for the courses offered, on par with the minimum fee that is being fixed in the colleges in the State and recommend the same to the State Government in five days.

iv. The said minimum fee fixed, shall be treated as a tentative fee and the correct fee would be fixed by the Commission after due processing of the data submitted by the college.

v. After receiving the request from the Commission, the State Government shall display the petitioner(s)/college(s) in the list of colleges at official website for participating in the upcoming web counselling in various courses for the present Academic Year

2024-25.

vi. The State Government, shall caution the students, taking admission into the courses offered by the colleges, by informing the students that the fee shown in the admis