India, May 21 -- The chaos due to the NEET paper leak is having a cascading effect on admissions to other professional courses in Maharashtra, specifically engineering, pharmacy and agriculture, causing uncertainty for more than 400,000 students.

Admission to these professional courses are impacted as NEET scores are considered along with the results of the common entrance test (CET) for these streams. On Wednesday, higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil said, "The admission process for these courses cannot move forward until the revised NEET examination is conducted and results are declared."

The state education department conducted two separate CET examinations - for PCM and PCB students. Patil said the department a...