JUDGMENT (PER ASHWIN D. BHOBE, J) :

1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith and heard finally with the consent of the parties.

2. The present petition is at the instance of the Petitioner No. 1 a Shikshan Sevak and the Petitioner No.2 Management. By the present petition, Petitioners challenge the impugned order dated 25/11/2022 passed by Respondent No. 3 (at Exh. H), refusing to grant approval, to the appointment of Petitioner No. 1, as Shikshan Sevak in the aided school of Petitioner No. 2 (“impugned order”).

Petitioners seek the following substantive reliefs :

“a] Rule Nisi be issued and records and proceedings be called for.

b] By a suitable writ, order or direction, this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to quash and set aside the impugned order dated 25.11.2022 issued by the Respondent No. 3, and accordingly the Respondent No. 3 may be directed to grant approval to the appointment of the Petitioner No. 1 as a Shikshan Sevak in the aided Secondary School of the Petitioner No. 2 Management w.e.f. 1.7.2022 for a period of 3 years, and to release the grant-in-aid for payment of monthly honorarium to the Petitioner No. 1 for the said period of 3 years.

c] By a suitable writ, order or directio