Chapter II REGULATION OF ADMISSIONS

1. (1) The eligibility conditions and requirements for admission to a professional course at any Private Professional Educational Institution shall be such as may be notified by the Government from time to time, but shall not be less than, those stipulated by the appropriate authority.
2. (2) No student shall be admitted to a Private Professional Educational Institution unless the student possesses such educational or equivalent qualification as may be notified.
3. (3) Unaided institution shall admit students through a process as may be prescribed.

The admissions to seats for professional course in every unaided institution shall be carried out in the following manner:—

1. (a) admission to seats in a Private Professional Educational Institution excluding institutional quota declared by Government from time to time, shall be made on the basis of merit by following the procedure of Common Entrance Test
2. (CET) conducted in the manner, as may be prescribed by rules: Provided that, the admission to institutional quota shall be on the basis of merit and after following the procedure specified by the appropriate authority: Provided further that, the State Government may by order issued from time to time exempt any professional courses, from requirement of the Common Entrance Test
3. (CET) thereto.
4. (b) admissions to such institution shall be carried out by the competent authority through the Centralized Admission Process on the basis of Common Entrance Test
5. (CET) and Centralized Admission Process (CAP);
6. (c) the Competent Authority shall supervise and guide the entire Centralized Admission Process in such manner as it may specify with a view to ensuring that the process is fair, transparent, merit-based and non-exploitative.

Any admission made in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be void.

1. (1) The allocation of seats under different categories in an unaided institution, not being a Minority Educational Institution, shall be in accordance with the Maharashtra Private Professional Educational Institutions (Reservation of seats for admission for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis), Nomadic Tribes and Other Backward Classes) Act, 2006 and as per the Government policy declared from time to time, including the NRI quota.
2. (2) In an unaided Minority Educational Institution, the admissions shall be made as per the policy of the State Government and not less than fifty-one per cent. of the sanctioned intake shall be filled by minority students from within the State, belonging to the minority community to which the institution belongs on the basis of inter-se merit of the Common Entrance Test(CET) and Centralized Admission Process (CAP): Provided that, if any seats earmarked for the minority category in an unaided Minority Educational Institution remain to be filled in a academic year or where the students leave the institution after selection, the unfilled vacant seats shall be surrendered to the Competent Authority of the State Government for being filled up from the minority to which the minority institution belongs, on the basis ofinter-se merit list prepared on the basis of the Common Entrance Test
   • (CET) conducted in accordance with the provisions of sub-section
3. (4) of section 10 andCentralized Admission Process (CAP): Provided further that, if any seats remain unfilled even thereafter, such unfilled seats shall be filled from the student belonging to the general category on the basis of merit of the Common Entrance Test
   • (CET) conducted by the Competent Authorityand Centralized Admission Process (CAP): Provided also that, if such institution fails to admit minimum fifty-one per cent. of its sanctioned intake from the persons belonging to the concerned minority, for period of three consecutive years the Competent Authority shall inform the State Government to refer such institution for taking action under section 12C of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004.

The provisions of sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 in respect of the Regulations of Admissions and section 10 in respect of CET Cell shall mutatis mutandis apply to Government institution, Government aided institution and Public University Departments or institutes.