India, Sept. 30 -- The Nursing Council of India has permitted the Maharashtra government to drop the minimum percentile requirement in the nursing entrance exam to ensure that vacant seats in colleges can be filled. Acting on this, the state's Common Entrance Test (CET) cell has announced that students who appeared for the MH Nursing CET will now be eligible for admission to BSc Nursing courses even if they scored 0 percentile in the entrance exam.

The only condition that remains is that students must have at least 50% marks in Class 12 PCB (physics, chemistry and biology). Earlier, the rules required students to secure 50% in PCB along with a minimum of 50 percentile in the CET exam. The decision has been taken to provide more opportuni...