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"Issuance of appropriate writ, direction or order by commanding the respondents 1 and 2 to sanction the amount of scholarship comprising tuition fee, hostel fee, mess charges and other incidentals including the consequential renewals till the completion of the course in favour of the left over 271 students Session 2014-15 as per list contained in Annexure-XI and credit the same to the Page |2 account of the petitioner University as per the scale prescribed in guidelines of Prime Ministers Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) and as per the approved fee structure of the petitioner-University."

"9.3 The scholarship scheme would be applicable for courses in all Government Colleges/Universities, Engineering Institutions, Medical Colleges and some select private institutions to be identified by the Government on the basis of some objective criteria. This merit cum means scholarship will be available to students from J&K who get admission in these institutions through the normal selection process subject to the parental income being below Rs.4.5 lakhs per annum. However, if the demand for these scholarships exceeds supply, the selection could be made Page |3 on the basis of a set of criteria consisting of a combination of means cum merit. The Expert Group recommends that 5000 scholarships per annum may be awarded for the next 5 years. Out of the total, 4500 scholarships (90%) could be for general degree courses, 250 for Engineering (5%) and 250 for Medical studies (5%). These scholarships would not only cover, subject to a normative ceiling, the full tuition fee but also hostel fee, cost of books and other incidentals. A possible annual normative ceiling for programme fee could be Rs 30,000 for general degree courses, Rs 1.25 lakhs for engineering and Rs 3.0 lakhs for medical studies. The hostel fee and other incidentals could be capped at Rs 1.0 lakh per annum. The Expert Group recommends an outlay of Rs.1200 crores for this initiative, which will benefit 25,000 students of J&K over a period of 5 years. We expect that this five year window will be able to build capacities of the youth to enable them to compete in the normal course. This Special Scholarship Scheme in J&K will be in addition to other scholarship schemes currently available.

4. Contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner- University, created under the Suresh Gyan University Jaipur Act 2008, admitted the students from the State of J&K in different courses, provided them education without charging any fee like tuition fee, hostel fee etc. and has filed the instant writ petition on the ground that the University has been excluded by the respondent No. 2 from the benefit of Scholarship as it has not got the approval of AICTE and has lodged the claim on the ground that the approval of the AICTE is not required to the University and has sought direction upon the respondents that the amount of Scholarship comprising of tuition fee, hostel fee, mess charges and other charges including consequential renewals till the completion of the course in favour of the 271 left-over students for the academic session 2014- 15, be released in favour of the petitioner-University.

means that bundle of facts which the petitioner must prove, if traversed, to entitle him to a judgment in his favour. The cause of action has no relation whatever to the defense which may be set up by the defendant, nor does it depend upon the character of the relief prayed for by the plaintiff. It refers entirely to the ground set- forth in the plaint as the cause of action upon which the plaintiff asks the Court to arrive at a conclusion in his favour.

21. Since the petitioner-University is Jaipur based in Rajasthan and claims reimbursement of the expenses incurred with regard to tuition fee, hostel fee, cost of books and other incidental expenses borne out by the petitioner-University for having admitted, on its own, the students of Jammu & Kashmir under the Prime Ministers Special Scholarship Scheme, which has been denied to the left- over 271 students of Session 2014-15 by respondent No.2, who is also Delhi based. The cause of action, under the given circumstances, cannot be said to have wholly or partly accrued within the jurisdiction of this Court. Therefore, without going into the merits of the case, this petition is not worth to be entertained, in the light of the aforementioned settled legal position and 'no cause of action' having arisen within the territorial jurisdiction of this Court. As a result this Writ Petition filed by the petitioner-