The Bihar government taken a move to lower the cut-off mark for Scheduled Caste students seeking admission to Master of Education courses in universities of Bihar, the state Assembly was informed today.
In a calling attention motion, JD (U) MLA Shyam Rajak has said only two SC candidates got admission to MEd courses in the year 2016-17 as against 50 reserved seats in universities across the state.
Rajak said the qualifying marks for seeking admission to the courses was fixed at 50% for all social groups and no relief was given to the SCs.
The seats which remained vacant were filled up by general category students, he said.
Replying to this, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shravan Kumar a reduction in the cut-off marks for SCs - from 50 per cent to 45% - by means of amendment in statutes was under process.
"The amendment will be sent to the Chancellor for approval following which the problem will be solved", Kumar said.