Court No. - 32

Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6044 of 2022

Petitioner :- C/M Nehru Junior High School And 12 Others

Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajesh Kumar Singh

Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.

Hon'ble Siddharth,J.

The petitioner has approached this Court praying

for quashing of the order dated 07.10.2021 passed

by respondent no. 1, Principal Secretary, Basic

Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow,

whereby the application for grant-in-aid has been

rejected on the ground that the Junior Basic

School and Junior High School are different

institutions and no grant-in-aid is payable to the

primary section of the institution.

Learned counsel for the petitioners has relied upon

the Division Bench judgement of this Court in

WRIT- A No. 20751 of 2019 whereby this Court in

paragraph no. 201 (ii) has held that the institutions

falling in Group 'B' & 'C' are held to be covered

under the provisions of Payment of Salaries Act'

1978 as amended by 2017 Amendment namely

U.P. Act No. 3 of 2018 and has directed the State

to reconsider the claims of such institutions for

providing grant-in-aid in the light of the principle of