$~49 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + LPA 71/2026, CM Nos.10413/2026 & 10415/2026 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TEACHER EDUCATION AND ANR. .....Appellants Through: Mr. Anuj Kapoor, Ms. Shivom Sethi, Mr. Nandeesh Nanda, Mr. Puneet Kumar & Mr. Adhish Saxena, Advocates.

Versus BANSUR MAHAVIDHYALAYA & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Trideep Pais, Senior Advocate withMr.SahilGhai,Mr.AnujKishore Saxena, Mr. Aekansh Agarwal, Ms. Saloni Ambastha & Ms. Sakshi Jain, Advocates for R-1.

CORAM:

HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA

O R D E R

% 16.02.2026 CM Nos.10414/2026 & 10416/2026 (both for exemption) 1. Exemption is allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2. The Applications stand disposed of.

LPA 71/2026

3. Heard the learned Counsel for the Parties.

4. The Appellants have filed the present Appeal to assail the order dated 12.01.2026 (“Impugned Order”) passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(C) No.19683/2025 (“Writ Petition”) filed by the Respondent No.1- Institution whereby the Writ Petition has been allowed and a direction has been issued to the Appellants that the application dated 05.03.2024 submitted by the Respondent No.1- Institution be decided expeditiously and in any case before 31.03.2026. The learned Single Judge has further directed that the said application shall bedecided on merits and afterhearing the RespondentNo.1-

Institution.

5. The prayer made in the Writ Petition was that a direction be issued to the Appellants to open its online web portal, allow submission of online application andtoacceptsuch applicationsubmittedbythe RespondentNo.1- Institution for transition from 4 year Integrated BA/B.Sc.-B.Ed. to 4 year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) under National Education Policy, 2020 and in the alternate, to accept such application in physical form. 6. For appreciating the prayer made in the Writ Petition, we need to take note of the Public Notice dated 12.09.2025 issued by the Appellants for operating of its portal for providing final opportunity to the existing Institutions offering 4-year integrated B.Sc., B.Ed./B.A. B.Ed. courses to apply afresh for transition into 4-year ITEP course. The said Public Notice also mentions a provision inserted in Appendix-15 of National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations 2014 whichprovidesforaprovisionfortransitiontoITEP. PriortothesaidPublic Notice dated 12.09.2025, Public Notice dated 05.02.2024 providing for transition to ITEP was issued. Whereafter on certain representations, a decision was taken by the Appellants to accord final opportunity to the Institutions seeking transition by giving an opportunity to apply afresh online on the portal of the Appellants. It was further provided that those institutions which have earlier submitted application seeking transition in response to Public Notice dated 05.02.2024 may be exempted from making payment of processing fee subject to specifying / mentioning the registration number of the earlier application submitted.

7. The Respondent No.1- Institution had made application on 05.03.2024 pursuant to the earlier Public Notice dated 05.02.2024 and thus according to the Public Notice dated 12.09.2025, it was not exempted from applying afresh; the only exemption available to the Respondent No.1- Institution was that it would be exempted from making payment of processing fee. The last dateofsubmissionoftheapplicationpursuanttothelatterPublicNoticedated

12.09.2025 was 05.10.2025.

8. The Respondent No.1- Institution has not challenged the Public Notice dated 12.09.2025 requiring all Institutions seeking transition to apply afresh. Admittedly, the Respondent No.1- Institution did not submit its application pursuant to the Public Notice dated 12.09.2025 prior to the last date i.e. prior to 05.10.2025.

9. With the assertions that certain technical glitches were noticed by the Respondent No.1- Institution while submitting their application pursuant to the Public Notice dated 12.09