The

petitioners

in

W.P.No.20701/2022

and

W.P.No.20921/2022 are minority educational institutions

established and administered by the Trust. Similarly,

petitioner in W.P.No.20917/2022 is an educational

institution administered by the Trust. The petitioners are

aggrieved by the action of the State Government in

drawing up a seat matrix and in notifying the fee

structure for admission to various post graduate courses

for academic year 2022-23. In order to appreciate the

grievance of the petitioners, few relevant facts need

mention. For the facility of reference, facts from

W.P.No.20701/22 are being referred to.

2.

The petitioner is a private unaided linguistic

minority institution, which was established and is being

administered by Srinivasa Trust primarily for the benefit

of members of Telugu linguistic minority community in

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the State of Karnataka. For the academic year 2022-23,

the State Government had prepared draft terms of

consensual agreement and shared it with respondent

No.4, which is an association of minority professional

colleges in the State of Karnataka (hereinafter referred to

as 'the association' for short). The association in turn

shared it with its members includi