has given an illustration as to the number of Engineering Colleges in the State, the procedures relating to Engineering Admission resorted to by the educational institutions and Universities etc., The grievance expressed by the petitioner is that while admission is resorted to based on the relative academic merit and by adhering to the concept of equal opportunity, the same yardstick is not applied when it comes to employment through the campus interview. According to the petitioner, multi-national companies forays into the campus of the educational institutions and picks up for employment the student belongs to affluent and well developed background, but they seldom recruits students on the basis of their relative merit, seniority and ability. This according to the petitioner is a discrimination in the matter of recruitment through campus interviews conducted by Indian and Multinational companies across the educational institutions. It is further stated that certain colleges are also imposing and/or following eligibility criteria and permits only certain class of students to participate in the campus interview, leaving other students prejudiced. In some other colleges, students are permitted to go for interview without writing the necessary and mandatory tests and the marks secured in those tests also differ from institution to institution without any pre-defined uniform procedures. Thus, it is the contention of the petitioner that all the
