Apex court refuses to interfere in JEE process

The Supreme Court Thursday declined to interfere now with the new normalisation policy to prepare the merit list for admission to centrally-funded engineering colleges,based on Class XII board marks and Joint Entrance Exam JEE.

A Bench of Justices H L Dattu and Dipak Misra,however,agreed to hear the plea of a group of parents of engineering aspirants and sought the Centres response on the new policy. The new mechanism takes into account a candidates performance in Class XII exams and the corresponding score in JEE.

The Bench said it was leaving open the basic question whether SC could entertain a petition challenging the education policy of the central government in a writ petition. This is the first hurdle you petitioner will have to cross, said the Bench.

Around 25,000 students are selected every year for all the 30 National Institutes of Technology NITs,Indian Institutes of Information Technology and other top tech schools,except the Indian Institutes of Technology IITs.