While last year the culprit was the row over best-five, it is the tardy online process this year.
Even though there were no major controversies during the online admission process this year, the academic year has been delayed once again. Colleges will be able to start classes only in September, say college principals.
Principals say that the delay in the start of the new academic year has become an unwanted trend over the past three years. “Last year, classes started only in mid-September due to court cases over the best-five policy. This year, even though there were no major controversies, our classes will still not begin until the first week of September,” said TA Shiware, principal, KPB Hinduja College, Charni Road.
Frazer Mascarenhas, principal of St Xavier’s College, said the government needs to come up with a swifter way of online admissions or leave it to the colleges. “We could have finished our admissions along with the minority admissions and started our year on time,” Mascarenhas said.
Meanwhile, this year colleges were able to surrender only 27,622 seats unused from management and minority quotas as most of them have been lapped up by students desperate to secure admissions.
At the end of minority and management quota admissions, 8,220 seats remained vacant in in-house quota, while 18,881 seats were left behind from minority quota. Only 611 seats were left after admissions to management quota. Last year, colleges had submitted around 37,829 seats.
St Xavier’s College has already filled both its Arts and Science minority seats. “Students are insecure about their admissions as the cut-offs are likely to soar sky high. We have received a huge number of applications and even had to prepare a waiting list for students on the minority quota. With most quota seats already filled, the surrendered seats which have been added to the open category have not helped much,” said Fr Mascarenhas.
“The number has gone up to 1,82,101 seats from 1,54,479. With 1,98,918 students filing online forms, there is going to be a shortage of seats,” added Mascarenhas. But education department officials claim that every child will get a seat. “Most of the students who have applied for online admissions have also taken a seat in minority quota, so they will cancel their online admission,” the officer said.
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