Maharashtra Govt likely to conduct its own CET in 2016 for engineering



By Vikas Vaidya

The department of Higher and Technical Education of Maharashtra Government may conduct its own Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to engineering courses from next academic year. If this CET is conducted then Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) will be out. There is lot of confusion regarding JEE in its current form.
Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde had announced that there would be a state-level common entrance test (MH-CET) for admissions to engineering institutes from the next academic year. The test was last held in 2013-14. Same is scheduled to be held in May 2016. With the cancellation of National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), respective States are already conducting their own CETs for admission to medical colleges.
Supreme Court in an judgement had said that no multiplicity of tests should be held to secure admission in professional courses like medical and engineering. Accordingly NEET was planned. But while planning for the NEET, the Government failed to create proper mechanism. Private Medical colleges approached Supreme Court pointing out number of practical difficulties in finalising admissions on the basis of the CET conducted by Government. State Governments felt that they would lose the seats to the candidates from outside State and everywhere pressure was mounted on Governments to protect interests of students domiciled in that particular state. Finally NEET was scrapped. On the same lines, opposition was whipped up against JEE too. But, amidst these changes and different entrance tests conducted by different agencies every year based on different courses, ultimate sufferer would be hapless students.
Earlier UPA Government had changed the format of CET for the admissions to Indian Institute of Technology. Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) was conducting AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination) for the admissions to National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), autonomous colleges, deemed universities and IIT-JEE for the admissions to IIT. It was changed to JEE Main and JEE Advanced. For the past two years, only scores of JEE-Mains were considered for admissions to engineering colleges in the state. From next year, only those keen on seeking admission to national-level engineering institutes will have to give that exam. The minister had said the objective was to reduce the pressure which two examinations bring.
CET is easier than JEE, so more students want to appear for it. The number of seats for engineering courses is more in Maharashtra, so students will need to score high to get admission in reputed colleges.
Some parents alleged that Government always creates confusion and their wards suffer. The authorities should come out with the clear-cut policies as far as CET is concerned, added one angry parent.

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