JEE Main 2023: Bombay High Court to hear plea seeking exam postponement tomorrow

NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court will hear the petition seeking postponement of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2023 and withdrawal of 75 percent eligibility criteria tomorrow, January 10, 2023. The court gave time to the petitioner to file the JEE Main 2023 brochure.

A bench of acting chief justice SV Gangpurwala and J Sandeep V Marne heard the petition filed by child rights activist Anubha Srivastava Sahai on January 4 and postponed the hearing to tomorrow as the petitioner had not submitted the brochure. “You should have filed with the petition. Matter on January 10,” the court told the petitioner.

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During the previous hearing, the petitioner told the court that JEE Mains 2023 dates are clashing with several board exams 2023 and that the 75% eligibility criteria brought back this year will affect lakhs of students. Upon this, advocate Rui Rodriguez appearing for the National Testing Agency (NTA) said that the criteria is for Class 12 marks.

Rodriguez added that the Class 12 score is considered for the admission in engineering courses and not as an eligibility for appearing in the entrance exam. The petitioner’s counsel argued that, in that case, there's no point in appearing in JEE Main 2023 if the candidate doesn’t have the score.

Besides demanding postponement of the exam and relaxation in eligibility criteria, the plea also stated that earlier NTA used to declare the IIT JEE Main 2023 exam dates two to three months prior to the exam. However, the announcement of exams in such short notice this time will not give enough time to students for preparation.