Judgment :- 1. The petitioner seeks for a Mandamus directing the first respondent to recognize the status of the petitioner's college, namely, Global College of Nursing, Edavilagam, Nattalam, Marthandam, Kanyakumari District as a Christian Religious Minority Educational Institution and issue appropriate orders to that effect forthwith. 2. The petitioner Trust is a Cristian Minority Trust. The Trust is running hospital and a group of colleges including the college referred to in the writ petition, namely, Global College of Nursing, Edavilagam, Nattalam, Marthandam, Kanyakumari District. It is stated that the Trust is the Educational Agency of the said college and all the trustees are Christians by birth. It is stated that the college is functioning as a full-fledged Christian Minority Education Institution. The petitioner submitted a memorandum to the first respondent on 22.06.2011 seeking for minority status to the said college. It is stated that the said application is still pending without consideration. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner satisfied all the requirements enumerated under the guidelines issued by the State Government in G.O.Ms.No.270, dated 17.06.1998, and the first respondent Government has already conferred minority status to the other Educational Institution run by the very same petitioner Trust. He also invited this Court attention to an order passed in W.P(MD)No.1922 of 2013 dated 20.01.2015 filed by the very same Trust seeking for minority status in respect of another college, namely, Immanuel Arasar JJ College of Engineering, wherein this Court has directed the first respondent therein to consider the application of the petitioner, within eight weeks also by taking note of the fact that the other Educational Institution run by the petitioner was already stated to have been declared as Minority Institution. 4. Thus, by following the earlier order passed by this Court, this writ petition is disposed of by directing the first respondent to consider the application of the petitioner, dated 22.06.2011 and pass orders on the same, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Needless to say that the first respondent will also take note of the fact that the other Educational Institution run by the petitioner is said to have been declared as Minority Institution by the first respondent. No costs. Consequently, connected Miscellaneous Petition is closed.