By Sara D Benedicta Josna
Karnataka: In the KCET repeater’s issue, the High Court orders KEA 50% of the weightage to be given to PUC marks of all the students in the KCET merit score. This verdict has created relief for the petitioners appealing to the Karnataka Examination Authority’s decision to not include the PUC marks from the students of the 2021 batch, who repeated the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) this year in the merit score.
The judgment was passed on September 3, at 2: 30p.m creating an air of relief to 24,000 students who had been protesting the KEA’s decision to not consider 50% weightage for the PUC marks for the 2021 batch students in this year’s KCET score. The KEA had continued to stand firm on the fact that since the 2021 batch of students hadn’t written their board exams due to the COVID-19 pandemic, considering their marks would be discriminatory. The petitioners protested that having different regulations in place for calculating the marks of candidates in a common entrance exam was unfair.
This note was challenged by the petitioners who said that the KEA had no authority to issue it and that the note was arbitrary since the Government Order it referred to applied to the year 2021 only. Now the Karnataka High Court has admitted the student’s appeal and has quashed this note.
“The KEA has been ordered by the Karnataka High Court to re-do the entire ranking process and produce the KCET merit score for all the students, granting 50% weightage to the KCET score and 50% weightage to the PUC score,” said Advocate Rajendra B Kulkarni, who represented one of the petitioner’s case. “Whatever we had sought from the honorable court has been granted,” he added.
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