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The Higher secondary students from the science department can now pursue their engineering in polytechnic institutes in Maharashtra. The state directorate of technical education (DTE) has decided to give direct admission them commonly as "lateral entry", to the second year of post-SSC diploma courses from academic year 2015-16. Mahesh Shivankar, DTE joint director for Aurangabad region, said the move is expected to benefit a large number of HSC students who earlier had to give up their plans of pursuing diploma courses only because they had not taken maths at the junior college level.

 Earlier, only HSC candidates from the science stream taking the combination of physics-chemistry-mathematics or physics-chemistry-mathematics-biology or bifocal/technical subjects or minimum competency vocational courses (MCVC) at the 10+2 level were only allowed lateral entry to the diploma courses, besides eligible ITI and other students. 

The DTE has kept a 25% quota for lateral entry from each of the four designated categories - HSC (science), HSC (bifocal), HSC (MCVC) and ITI. Shivankar said the students who did not take maths at the 10+2 level will have to give an additional examination in the subject after securing the second-year admission.  He said "This subject is taught to students in the first year of the diploma course and covers basic concepts of maths," .

News source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-maths-no-bar-to-polytechnic-course-admissions/articleshow/47778342.cms

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