Maharashtra FYJC Admissions 2021: HC Asks MSBSHSE to Form Panel to Set CET Question Paper
News 18The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra government to consider constituting a committee of experts from different education boards to prepare a common question paper for the upcoming common entrance test for admissions to first-year junior college across the state. The High Court was hearing a petition filed by a student of the ICSE board and a bunch of intervention applications challenging a government resolution dated May 28, which declared that the admissions to Class 11 or junior colleges will be on the basis of a CET, which in turn will be based solely on the syllabus of the SSC board. On Wednesday, however, the state government’s counsel Poornima Kantharia told the court that permitting different boards to decide their own syllabus will not be possible, and added that apart from the ICSE and CBSE boards, the International Baccalaureate board too wanted to be impleaded as a party. The committee of experts could prepare a common CET question paper by incorporating multiple subjects with a choice for students to opt for questions that pertain to subjects relevant to their respective boards, it said.