State to Hold Second CET, Colleges Worried About Delay in Academic Year

The state government's decision on Friday to hold a second Common Entrance Test (CET) for professional undergraduate courses like Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelors of Arts (BA), Bachelors of Management Studies (BMS), Bachelors of Mass Media (BMM), and Bachelors of Computer Applications (BCA) has triggered concerns of delaying the academic year due to another round of CET, among parents and college principals.

- HT Correspondent

MUMBAI:

The move comes after only 61,666 students appeared for the CET this year, conducted between April 29 and 30, whereas there are over 108,000 seats available across the professional undergraduate programmes in the state. With such a large shortfall in applicants, many colleges fear that a significant number of seats could remain vacant.

After the poor response from the students for CET, the management of various colleges approached the state government to hold one more round of CET to fill the vacant seats. Chandrakant Patil, minister of higher and technical education, announced the second CET on Friday for the students who missed the first CET.