20. Though the petitioner and the petitioner's counsels have done humungous service in the field of education, at least in the city of Delhi but we are unable to accept their contention that the best, as RPVVs represent should either be made available to all or to none. The Courts cannot shut their eyes to the dependency, of providing the best education, on the availability of resources financial as well as manpower. From the material placed before us, it is apparent that the teachers and the principals appointed to the RPVVs are the best from their respective stocks. The Supreme Court, in State of Punjab v. Ram Lubhaya Bagga (1998) 4 SCC 117, Delhi Development Horticulture Employees' Union v. Delhi Administration (1992) 4 SCC 99 and in Viklad Coal Merchant, Patiala v. Union of India (1984) 1 SCC 619 has taken notice of the limited resources available with the government and of the justifiability of optimum use thereof and the need for distribution of the scarce resources to achieve and accomplish desired results including by prioritization. What we have wondered is, whether a wait for a utopian state of affairs (when all schools can be raised to the level of RPVVs) should be allowed to come in the way of the small steps which can be taken in the interregnum. Though the 19 RPVVs form a drop in the sea of over 1000 Government, Government Aided, Municipal, Cantonment Board schools in the city of Delhi but we at the same time cannot shut our eyes to the difference which they have made. Though the Courts are unable to issue general directions for raising the level of education in all the Government, Government Aided, Municipal, Cantonment Board schools to the best possible or as in RPVVs but the same would not prevent this Court from, in the exercise of wide jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to come to the rescue of an illustrious institution as the RPVVs represent, from being shut down.
