Unaided B.Ed Colleges seek lower pass percentage for CET
Citing Supreme Court judgment, the association of Maharashtra
unaided B.Ed college managements, has demanded that the National Council for Teacher
Education (NCTE) allow graduates with 45% marks to appear for the B.Ed Common Entrance
Test (CET) in Maharashtra.
The association has also made a representation to the state government and the Pravesh
Niyantran Samiti (PNS), as the norm to allow graduates with 50% marks to appear
for the CET has affected thousands of graduates, especially in rural areas, said
Shaikh Ramzan, secretary of the Pune based association representing unaided B.Ed
and M.Ed institutions.
Young people, who come from poor families, tend to complete their graduation while
supporting their families by doing odd jobs simultanously. In such a situation,
despite having the ability, most of them cannot score 50% marks in the examination,
Ramzan said.
Urging the NCTE and the PNS to reduce the limit of marks obtained in graduation
to at least 45% for the CET, Ramzan cited an 11 member Supreme Court judgment, which
was made in the case of TMA Pai Foundation v/s State of Karnataka. The SC judgment
has clearly stated that any system of student selection would be unreasonable if
it deprives the private unaided institutions of the right to rational selection,
which it devised for itself, subject to the minimum qualification that may be prescribed
to some system of computing the equivalence between different kinds of qualification,
like a common entrance test. Such a system of selection can involve both written
and oral tests for selection based on principal of fairness.
Courtesy: Times of India
