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Maharashtra Bars Outside-State CET Exams from Next Year

The decision follows four perfect scores at a Patna exam centre that triggered a CID probe.

Every year, more than 1 million students take the CET for admission to various courses, of which more than 25,000 students take the exam at centres outside the state (Photo by Harsimar Pal Singh/Hindustan Times)
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Overview

  • Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil announced on June 5 that the Common Entrance Test for professional courses will be held exclusively at Maharashtra centres from the next academic year.
  • Officials said the restriction aims to maintain transparency by curbing organised malpractices in the CET process.
  • The move was prompted after four candidates from a single Patna centre scored 100 percentile in the five-year LLB CET, leading authorities to hand the case to the Crime Investigation Department.
  • Each year more than one million students sit the CET and over 25,000 of them used centres outside Maharashtra, all of whom must now travel into the state.
  • In March the Mumbai Crime Branch dismantled a CET admission racket and arrested three Delhi suspects accused of promising inflated percentiles to candidates.