The irregularities during the state-level common entrance test (MHT-CET) conducted by the Maharashtra government on Sunday have raised concerns among students and parents.
At the exam centre in Ahilyanagar district, students complained that 20 to 25 questions in the 50-mark mathematics paper had incorrect answer options.
Seeing the matter as a serious issue, Harshvardhan Sapkal, President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee has demanded that students be awarded marks for these erroneous questions.
In a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Congress state president further stated that in the mathematics paper, among the 50 questions, 20 to 25 had incorrect answer options. In some cases, all four given options were wrong.
However, since students were required to attempt all questions, they were compelled to choose incorrect options. When students complained about this at the exam centre, their grievances were ignored. Similar complaints have been reported from other examination centres across the state. Some centres also faced server outages, but satisfactory responses were not provided by the examination authorities.
This examination is crucial for engineering admissions. If as many as 20 to 25 questions had incorrect options, it could cause significant harm to students.
“Who is responsible for this? Why should students suffer due to the negligence of the institutions or companies responsible for preparing the papers and conducting the examination? This is not merely a matter of a few questions; it concerns the future of thousands of students,” said Sapkal.
He urged the state government to take this issue seriously and take strict action against those responsible. “Institutions that cannot properly prepare papers or organize examinations should never be entrusted with such tasks again and should be blacklisted. The state government is fully responsible for ensuring that students are not harmed under any circumstances,” he said.
Harshvardhan Sapkal has demanded that the government clarify its stance on this matter and take measures to ensure students are not adversely affected.
