With the first round of First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions coming to an end on July 27, city colleges complained that they were forced to reject many applications as they did not fit into the cultural category.
With the first round of First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions coming to an end on July 27, city colleges complained that they were forced to reject many applications as they did not fit into the cultural category.
Colleges said that in a bid to land seat in a prominent college, many students who have appeared for intermediate drawing exams applied in the cultural category, even though they were not eligible.
College principals are blaming the schools, where the students filled their forms, for misguiding the students.
The online admission manual clearly states that only those students who passed their exam in music or dance conducted by the Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya or had certificates after winning prizes in Bal Natya competition conducted by the directorate of arts and culture, are eligible for admission through the cultural quota.
Unfortunately, most of the students who have given the elementary or intermediate exam have also applied for the quota.
Sunil Mantri, principal, NM College of Commerce and Economics, Vile Parle, said, "We had to turn away many students who had applied in the cultural quota because they did not match the criteria. The schools should have checked the students' certificates before approving their forms."
Marie Fernandes, principal of St Andrews College, Bandra, said that they too have been turning away students applying under cultural quota on a daily basis, as they do not have the proper certificates.
She said that they recently had to turn a girl away who had the fifth grade certificate in playing piano from the Trinity College of London.
We had to refuse her admission because she did not fit the requirements of the cultural quota. Students do not seem to know the rules of the quota. Schools should have guided them better," Fernandes said.
An official from the education department added that many schools had confused the eligibility criteria for bifocal admissions with that of the general admissions.
"Certificates like the drawing certificate at the intermediate level are valid only for admissions to bifocal courses under the cultural quota. Students and schools thought they were applicable to the general category as well,' he said.
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