The Supreme Court has ruled that states were not duty bound to grant recognition to unaided schools, even if it had adequate infrastructure and teaching staff, as indiscriminate recognition to unaided schools was fraught with the danger of favouritism playing a role in it.
A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra overruled a Kerala High Court judgment, which had mandated that a state government had to grant recognition to an unaided self-financed English medium school after it found that the school met requisite conditions laid down by the education department.
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