Engineering aspirants say that DTE tweaked the formula during the admission process to give undue advantage to state board students.
Over a dozen engineering aspirants from Jalgaon and Aurangabad have dragged the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) of Maharashtra to the Bombay high court over their controversial percentile formula which is being used for admission in engineering colleges for the first time this year. A petition in this regard was filed before the Aurangabad bench of the court on Wednesday, which sought an interim stay on the admission process for engineering being conducted by the DTE.
The petitioners, who belong to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), have stated that DTE's percentile based formula used for preparing the merit list is faulty, which gives undue advantge to the state board students. The petition also said that DTE came out with a govt resolution, tweaking the formula without consulting the stakeholders, that too in the middle of the admission process, which is illegal.
The court, however, on Thursday refused to grant the interim stay, citing inability to intervene in the SC's guidelines about time-bound admission in engineering colleges across India.
Earlier, the DTE, in its submission had pleaded that the engineering admissions were already underway and as per the apex court's order, the process has to be completed before July 29.
The court granted three weeks' time to the DTE to file an affidavit, by setting the next date of hearing to the first week of August.
The petitioners' counsel, Vinod Patil, said, "When we pleaded, by then the engineering admission would be over. The court said that the petitioners may approach the supreme court for intervention."
Students to approach SC
Jayant Tembhare, one of the petitioners and Principal of the Kashinath Palod Public School, Jalgoan (CBSE), who has taken up the issue on behalf of the students, is now readying himself for the apex court battle as students of Mumbai, Pune and from the ISC board have also joined him.
Speaking to dna over the phone, Tembhare said,"The DTE earlier stated in its rules that the scores of JEE (main) and class 12 would be considered with 50-50% weightage. However, on June 24, they came up with a formula which is based on percentile, instead of score, which created a discrepancy in the merit list due to low percentile of CBSE and ISC candidates, owing to the less number of the candidates in the board." A top DTE official said they would follow the court's order.
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