Education Minister Jitu Vaghani said that its pros and cons will have to be evaluated.

Some universities have expressed their reluctance to take the test. On Thursday, Vaghani presided over a meeting of vice-chancellors of state’s public universities to evaluate the feasibility and preparedness for the examination at the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University (BAOU) Ahmedabad.

“The pros and cons of this need to be evaluated. Also, there is a need to assess the preparedness made by the universities for the implementation of CUETs listed by the National Policy on Education (NEP) 2020. Since Gujarat is one of the states which have implemented NEP 2020 to the maximum, preparations are on for the same,” added Vaghani Indian Express,

Except state public technical universities such as Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and Institute of Infrastructure Research and Management (IITRAM), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University (BAOU) and regional state universities such as Children’s University and Indian Institute of Teacher Education or Shree. Somnath Sanskrit University, it will be applicable to about 10 state public universities.

Public universities include Gujarat University, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Sardar Patel University, Saurashtra University, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Veer Narmad South Gujarat University.

Thursday’s meeting came as a follow-up to a virtual meeting chaired by University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman Prof M Jagadesh Kumar on April 4, where they were “encouraged” to appear in CUET and use CUET scores instead. ” it was done. Using the marks obtained in class 12 board or any other entrance test for admission to BA, BSc, and BCom and other similar non-technical programmes.

However, sources close to the developments revealed that there are protests from the state universities for admissions on the basis of CUET scores. “Issues like difficulty of students in rural and interior areas to appear in Computer Based Test (CBT), additional financial burden of CUET exam fee to be paid by students, promotion of coaching centers and how to get a common admission formula Huh. In the case of both CUET and class 12 board exams,” said a government source.

The UGC, in its letter to the state government, has “requested” the possible steps “at the state government level” to adopt CUET scores for admission to undergraduate programs in state public universities from the academic session 2022-’23.

CUET is said to have “encouraged” state universities to adopt CUET scores in order to “avoid students from appearing in multiple entrance exams held on different dates, sometimes coinciding with each other.” and to provide equal opportunities to all the students”.

The UGC has also clarified that the adoption of CUET will not affect the reservation and admission policy of universities.