(1) wp 6226-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 6226 OF 2011 Vikas Madhavrao Baswante through father Madhavrao Gyanoba Baswante PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra and others RESPONDENTS ..... Mr. R.R. Suryawanshi, advocate for the Petitioner. Mr. V.D. Rakh, A.G.P. for the Respondent-State. ..... CORAM : B.R. GAVAI AND M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 22nd AUGUST, 2011 ORAL ORDER: 1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith by consent. 2. The petitioner has approached this Court for a direction to the respondents to consider his application to the admission to technical education. The eligibility for considering admission to the said Course is 40% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (P.C.M.) subjects in 12th standard examination. The petitioner has secured 39.66% marks (2) wp 6226-11 in the said P.C.M. group. 3. The Apex Court in the case of "State of UP and another vs. Pawan Kumar Tiwari and others" (2005) 2 SCC 10, has held that if a person has secured more than 0.5% of the marks, the same should be rounded up to the next number. In that view of the matter, 39.66% marks secured by the petitioner will have to be rounded up as 40%. The petition, therefore, deserves to be allowed. Rule is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (B). [M.T. JOSHI, J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] npj/wp6226-11