The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) lowered the eligibility criteria
for the qualifying subjects of Class XII
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 5th July. 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
S. K. Mahajan, director, Directorate of Technical Education.
Students who are eligible can apply between July 6 and July 8. Already, 9,000 engineering
and 1,100 pharmacy aspirants who satisfy the new criteria have 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
Courtesy: Times of India
