Amidst the stiff competition between SSC, CBSE, and ICSE students for class XI seats in prominent Pune colleges, the standard XI Centralised Admission Process Committee has finally got an idea of the exact number of non-SSC students aspiring in junior colleges.
The Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College of Commerce (MMCC), which was designated to collect the non-SSC admission forms, has collected a total of 1,244 forms from ICSE students and 1,997 forms from the CBSE board students.
Also the ICSE and CBSE board students filled 238 and 339 forms respectively for seats in the bifocal stream.
This year, for the 2011-12 academic year, there are a total of 20,965 seats available in the science stream. A total of 24,976 admission forms have been filed by the students for this stream.In the bifocal stream, 5,025 students have applied for a total of 4,875 seats.
For the commerce stream, only 20,590 students have applied for 26,380 seats while for Arts, barely 1,290 students have applied for a total of 11,460 seats available.
Following a hue and cry by parents of SSC students over the ICSE and CBSE students getting seats in most of the prominent colleges in Mumbai due to high scores, the state education department had to favour the state board students by bringing in percentile system in the admission process in 2008.
The percentile system was introduced to do away with comparative disparity between students from different boards.
However, the government had to roll back its system after a few parents of non-SSC students approached the court.
Later in 2009, the education department of the state government introduced 90:10 formula for class XI admission in junior colleges. Through this formula, 90% seats on all colleges were reserved for SSC students and the remaining for non-SSC students.
But once again the state government backtracked from the formula.
However, according to the government decision on February 25, 2010, the education department started implementing best five formula through which highest marks in only five subjects of SSC board are considered to ensure parity between different boards.
While implementing the centralised admission process, the education department could not gather the exact number of non-SSC students and how many seats are occupied them but from this year, the information will be handy for the CAP committee to allot extra seats if needed.
When contacted deputy director of education, Sunil Magar, who is also the chairman of the committee said, “The admission process is going smoothly and the non-SSC forms collected separately will only help to check the eligibility of the students as CBSE board has best five system but ICSE does not have it.”
Speaking on the excess demand for 4,000 seats in the science stream, Magar said there have been many cases of overlapping as many students have filled forms for bifocal also while some students chose diploma and courses in information technology. Therefore, there is no need to worry about admissions.
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