Means that pressure on students and faculty members will intensify
It's the second week of August, but first-year Mumbai’s junior
college (FYJC) lectures across almost all city colleges have yet to begin, with
more than 5,000 students still waiting to be assigned a seat. Principals are worried
that with another list scheduled to be announced on August 12, before offline admissions
begin on August 16, lectures will be delayed even further. The fact that professors
have to cover a revised syllabus means that pressure on students and faculty members
will intensify.
A few colleges such as St Xavier's and HR Colleges in south Mumbai have already
started lectures, but they are the exceptions. In fact, most principals say that
with the delays in the online admission process, they don't even know how many seats
are vacant or the total number of students who have secured their seats. M B Kekare,
principal of Patkar Varde College in Goregaon (W) said that lectures will begin
only by mid August. "We don't believe in starting lectures before students have
been allotted seats. Once the online admission process is over, our vacant seats
will be put up for offline admissions. Our classes won't begin until all students
secure a seat," said Kekare.
Many colleges are now waiting for a circular from the office of the deputy director
of education (school) before they announce the induction programs for their students.
Apart from the delay in the admission process, the coming long weekend from August
13 to 15 has many colleges wondering how they will complete the admission process
in time.
A handful of colleges, however, have already started classes with whatever
strength that has been allotted to their respective streams. "We arranged the induction
session for the new batch last weekend itself and started classes on Monday. We
will conduct remedial classes for those students whose names appear in the fifth
list," said Fr Frazer Mascarenhas , principal of St Xavier's College. H R College
at Churchgate, also started their first day of lectures on Monday. "We had very
few seats left for the last list and were surprised and happy to see our classes
full on the first day itself," said Deepika Bhatia, vice-principal of H R College.
Courtesy: Times of India
