13,000 engineering aspirants to benefit from eased norms

Updated on: Thursday, July 07, 2011

Close to 13,000 engineering aspirants in the state will benefit from the new relaxed criteria of 45% in the science stream in class XII. Last week, the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) lowered the eligibility criteria for the qualifying subjects of class XII (like physics, chemistry and mathematics) from 50% to 45% for open-category students and from 45% to 40% for reserved category candidates.

The government issued a regulation on it on Tuesday. The eligibility will be applicable for all graduate technical courses – engineering, hotel management and pharmacy. “Around 13,000 students who have good scores in the entrance test (MH-CET) who were not eligible earlier because of their class XII marks will now be allowed. The new criteria will allow them to enter technical professional colleges,” said SK Mahajan, director, Directorate of Technical Education.

Students who are eligible can apply between July 6 and July 8. 9,000 engineering and 1,100 pharmacy aspirants who satisfy the new criteria have already applied. Although the provisional merit list for engineering is up on the website, students eligible under the new rule will be accommodated on the final merit list.

ENGINEERING ADMISSION SCHEDULE

Provisional merit list: July 5

Form submission: July 6-8

Final merit list: July 11

Display of seat distribution: July 12

Submission of online option form for common admission process (CAP) Round I for state candidates: July 12-14

Provisional allotment: July 16

Submission for CAP Round II: July 26-28

Provisional allotment: July 30

13,000 engineering aspirants to benefit from eased norms

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