Court upholds Common Entrance Test (CET) Abolition

Chennai: The legal validity of the Tamil Nadu Government’s policy to abolish Common Entrance Test (CET) for admissions to professional courses was upheld by the Madras High Court on Friday.

Dismissing a batch of public interest litigation petitions challenging the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act 2006, a Division Bench comprising Justice Prafulla Kumar Misra and Justice J.A.K. Sampath Kumar said: “Abolition of Common Entrance Test does not have the ipso facto effect of lowering the standard. The only effect is that selection is not based on a common platform and therefore, vulnerable to the attack based on the principle of equality. This vulnerability has been overcome by equalization [of marks].”

• “The legislation does not dilute education standards
• “Present scheme non-exploitative”

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