The High Court of Karnataka on Friday ordered issue of notice to the State government on a petition seeking direction to the authorities to consider only marks obtained in the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to engineering, technology, ayurveda, unani, homeopathy, yoga, and other courses as was being done for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses.
A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath, passed the order on the petition filed by Bhuvanjyothi Trust, which runs a CBSE school at Shirtadi near Moodabidri in Dakshina Kannada district. It was contended in the petition that the rules on admission criteria are “discriminatory” in nature for the students.
Disadvantage
For admission to MBBS and BDS courses, the petitioner said, only marks secured in physics, chemistry and biology would be considered for determining the merit list/rank. And for admission to engineering, technology, ayurveda, unani, homeopathy, naturopathy, and yoga courses the merit list/rank would be determined by taking marks in the II PU exam/class 12 and the CET in equal proportion.
Moreover, the petitioner claimed that students who pursued PU education under CBSE system were in the disadvantage this year as those under State syllabus would get nearly 21 per cent grace marks for wrong questions in the maths paper.
Also, the sanctity for marks obtained in chemistry subject would be under question due to instances of question paper leakage, the petitioner said, while referring to the reports that question papers of other science subjects could also have been leaked.
