The Maharashtra government will waive off academic fees for women studying engineering and medical courses, whose family income is below Rs 8 lakh
The Maharashtra government has decided to waive off academic fees for women willing to study medical and engineering courses across colleges in the state. However, it is applicable for those whose family annual income is less than Rs 8 lakh. The scheme is expected to benefit over 20 lakh female students in the state.
In February, Maharashtra’s higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil announced that there has been a 50 per cent academic fee waiver in the same category which is now extended to 100 per cent. Patil added that universities should strive towards ensuring that more girls are taking admission to higher education courses across various fields and urged VCs to run special campaigns in support of the same, highlighting the importance of varsities declaring results on time.
Meanwhile, about 200 candidates and parents had filed objections with the Maharashtra CET cell, Mumbai office regarding question papers and answer keys of MHT CET 2024. Following this, Dilip Sardesai, commissioner of MHT CET said that students and their parents must not believe in rumours, since all objections raised were addressed and fully resolved. He also said that “the objection that the candidates did not get the marks they scored as per the answer sheets made available to them is also incorrect.”
Sardesai said there was no negative marking for incorrect answers the results were declared using the percentile method, and no candidate got grace marks, he pointed out at a press conference. “If the candidate or their parents had any objection regarding the questions or answers, the CET cell provided them with an online facility for registering their objections. These objections were verified by the respective subject experts and, accordingly, the answer sheets were modified. The report of the modified answer sheets was published on the CET cell website,” Sardesai said.
— with PTI inputs
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