Bhaskar Bhattacharya, CJ.—By way of this writ-application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, in the nature of a Public Interest Litigation, the petitioner Vidhyarthi Hit Rakshak Samiti, a social organization engaged in protecting the interest of the students, has brought to our notice that the State Education Department has taken a decision to replace the Gujarat Combined Entrance Test (GUJCET) with Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) (Main) of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for admission to engineering and pharmacy courses from 2013.

2. According to the petitioner, this abrupt change in the policy is likely to place the students in difficulty as the syllabus of GUJCET is quite different compared to that of JEE (Main), as a result of which, the students will not be able to cope up with the pressure of the new syllabus with which they will have to be prepared for the JEE (Main) exam.

3. The case made out by the petitioner in this petition may be summarised as under :

The students who were studying in 12th Standard (Science Stream) and desirous of taking admission in B.E./B.Tech. Degree Course after passing 12th Standard examination had to appear in GUJCET ex