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CHENNAI: With the Tamil Nadu Government informing the Madras High Court that the deadline for unapproved nursery and primary schools to comply with the Nursery Code had been extended up to August 31, the batch of writ petitions challenging the Government move to close such schools from June 1 was disposed of accordingly. Vacation judge Justice K. Raviraja Pandian, however, directed the authorities concerned to pass orders within 15 days on the applications of those schools that had complied with all conditions, applied for recognition and whose applications were pending. When the matter was taken up for hearing on Thursday morning, Additional Advocate-General A.L. Somayaji submitted that the Government had extended the deadline by three months, even though the schools were demanding only a month's extension. However, counsel for some of the petitioner-schools sought two weeks or one month after August 31 for the Government to consider their applications and pass orders. To this, Mr. Justice Raviraja Pandian said that schools must consider the extension of deadline as a "golden opportunity" and strive to comply with the mandatory conditions in two months, giving the process time of one month for the Government. Commending Mr. Somayaji's efforts in getting the extension, the Judge said that left to itself the court would not have granted more than a month for the schools to fulfil the mandatory norms. He then disposed of all the petitions stating that "since the relief asked for by the petitioners is granted by the Government, virtually nothing survives in the writ petitions for adjudication." He also made it clear that the order would be applicable for all schools, including those which had not filed any petition in the court.
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