In a bid to give an early start to First Year Junior Colleges (FYJC) admissions this year, the state board has suggested that online admissions can begin as soon as students’ marks are uploaded on its website. If the state government accepts mark sheets downloaded from the board’s website, then at least 10 precious days that students wait to get their original mark sheets can be saved, it has said.
The state board has put forth this suggestion before the government, which has appointed a committee to review FYJC online admissions and come up with suggestions to ensure a speedy and glitch-free process this year.
Sarjerao Jadhav, chairman of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, said, “We are able to declare results early because we are directly uploading the students’ marks on our website. But what is the point of early results, if the admissions start only after students get their mark sheets in hand which takes another 10 days?”
Jadhav said they have suggested to the government to allow students to use “provisional mark sheets” uploaded online for the purpose of admissions. “Students can take a printout of their mark sheets from our website on the day of the results itself and admissions can begin. Colleges can verify their marks once they get their original mark sheets,” he added.
However, college principals insist that the board should hand out the original mark sheets on the day of the results itself. They claim that admitting students on the basis of mark sheets downloaded from the website might lead to malpractices like fake certificates.
TA Shiware, principal of Hinduja College, Charni Road, said, “It would create chaos as students might submit fake certificates.
Students do not get benefits of early results anyway. It would be better if the board declared the results 10 days later but hand the mark sheets on the same day as the results.”
Officials from the state education department confirmed having received the suggestions. “We had appointed a committee to look into online admissions which has already submitted its recommendations to the secretary of education. We will review all of these suggestions and after the minister’s nod, implement changes.”
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