Bombay High Court to resume hearing of JEE Main eligibility plea tomorrow

JEE Main Eligibility Plea: The previous hearing ruled out the third attempt at JEE Main 2023.  

JEE Main Eligibility Plea: The Bombay High Court today reserved its order on whether Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 75 per cent eligibility criterion should be removed. The petitioner Anubha Shrivastava Sahai had requested the National Testing Agency (NTA) to remove the 75 per cent eligibility criterion for the JEE Main Session 2.    

The matter has now been postponed till tomorrow, Anubha Shrivastava Sahai told indianexpress.com. “The bench has reserved the order, they will announce it tomorrow,” she said. As per the public interest litigation (PIL), JEE Main aspirants have asked for 75 per cent and top 20 percentile criteria to be removed or lowered to 50 per cent in this year's entrance exam. 

The government had on April 28 submitted its affidavit related to 75 per cent criteria for JEE Main 2023 in the Bombay High Court. As per the affidavit, the exemption was given only because of the COVID-19 situation and cannot be provided any further.  

As per the affidavit filed by the government, during COVID students were informed that the relaxation is applicable only for that particular year, which was 2021; then again they provided it in year 2022 as an exemption. Now in 2023, they are not giving any relaxation in JEE Main 2023. it has stated that the JAB meeting was delayed due to COVID, so they informed it on 15th December about reintroducing the eligibility criteria. 

The NTA reintroduced the criteria in December 2022, while announcing JEE Main 2023 exam. The NTA in its brochure for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and CFTIs reinstated the eligibility criteria of 75 per cent in Class 12 board exams in the JEE Mains 2023 brochure. 

Following the announcement, JEE Main 2023 aspirants filed a PIL in the Bombay HC pleading for 75 per cent and top 20 percentile criteria to be removed or lowered to 50 percent in this year's entrance exam. The JEE 2023 aspirants pleaded that the marks scored by them are not a true reflection of their actual ability therefore those students with fewer marks than the eligibility criteria (75%) for this year’s examinations can score very high marks in the upcoming JEE Main 2023, and if a fair chance is denied to them that will affect the future of lakhs of students. 

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