768, 1465 and 1483 of 1970.
K. Venugopal and K. R. Nambiar, for the respondents in A.S No.
Govind Swaminadhan, Advocate General for the State of Tamil Nadu, S. Mohan and A. V. Rangam, for the appellants in all the appeals .
Appeals from the judgment and order dated September 3, 1970 of the Madras High Court in Writ Petitions Nos.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION C.A. No.
557 to 575 of 1971.
It appears that the Government of Tamil Nadu in furtherance of its policy to nationalise text books for schools, was intending to publish them through the Tamil Nadu Text Books Corporation pursuant to which it had issued the impugned O. letter.
454582/ E5/69, Education, dated 12th August 1969, addressed to District Collectors and Local Board authorities that they should intimate to the publishers of the books which are prescribed for the year 1969 70 that after the end of the School year they will numberlonger be prescribed.
557 to 559 and 561 to 575 of 1971 .
which companyrse was also adopted by the High Court.
Board and Municipal Council Schools challenging the directions of the Deputy Secretary to Government Education Department, companytained in his D.O. letter No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Jaganmohan Reddy, J. 22 Writ Petitions were filed in the High Court of Madras by publishers of text books for Government Schools, Distt.
