Local Needs

Local needs, it may be difficult to give a restrictive meaning to the expression 'local needs' i.e. keeping the same confined to the area where the educational institution is sought to be established in as much as the right of minority extends to the entire State and, thus, the local needs may also have direct nexus having regard to the needs of the State, Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka, AIR 2003 SC 3724: (2003) 6 SCC 697 (770).