JEE Main 2023: Bombay High Court to hear PIL on 75% eligibility criteria today – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court will hear a Public Interest Litigation on the eligibility criteria for Joint Engineering Entrance (JEE) – Mains 2023 exam on Tuesday.
The PIL, which has been listed to be heard before Bombay HC on February 21, raises concerns about JEE candidates, who qualify for admissions via the exam, having to secure 75 per cent marks or be in the top 20 percentile.
According to advocate Anubha Shrivastava Sahai’s tweet, the JEE matter has been listed as item no 31 in Bombay HC. “#JEE matter on 75% / top 20 percentile criteria listed on 21st February before the Bench of Hon’ble Chief Justice of Mumbai High court Item no 31 No IA filed till now by anyone No affidavit filed by @EduMinOfIndia #JEEMain2023,” Tweeted Sahai.

According to the JEE Main 2023 Information Bulletin published on the official website candidates who qualify for admissions via JEE Main 2023 should have secured 75 per cent marks or be in the top 20 percentile in their board exams.
Candidates, are against this rule and demanding to remove the 20 percentile criteria and lower the eligibility criteria to 50 per cent.
The second session of the JEE main 2023 will be conducted from April 6 to 12, 2023. The application registration for the same started on February 15 with the last date to apply is March 12, 2023.
A record 95.80 per cent attendance was recorded in the January edition of the exam with over 8.23 lakh candidates appearing for it. As per the JEE results, announced recently, around 20 candidates scored 100 percentile in the exam.
Based on the results of JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, the top 2.6 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for the JEE-Advanced exam, which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Meanwhile, the application process for the second edition of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET-UG) is going on and will remain open till March 12, 2023.