Admission panel assures apt redressal of genuine issues
The Std XI centralised admission process (CAP) committee
has assured that every effort will be made to resolve genuine issues regarding allotment
of seats. It has, however, maintained that pleas seeking change in the allotment
on frivolous grounds won’t be entertained.
The panel released the first merit list on July 25, declaring allotment of 46,545
seats at 160 junior colleges in the city and neighboring Pimpri - Chinchwad. The
process for students to confirm their admission at the allotted colleges was carried
out from July 26 till 5 pm on July 28.Over 45,000 admissions have been effected,
Magar said.
In these three days, the CAP panel received 695 complaints, which, Magar said, constitute
barely1.50% of the total admissions and even less than the plaints received last
year. Of the 234 complaints received on July 26,133 matters were accepted and resolved
while the remaining 101 matters have been rejected, he said. Another 261 and 200
complaints were received on July 27 and 28, respectively. We are in the process
of resolving these matters, he added.
On Thursday 26th July, the panel was forced to reiterate its position vis-vis frivolous
complaints, following reports published in a section of the local media, voicing
grievances by students and their parents about the allotted colleges.
There are some genuine complaints, which have been and are being resolved but, a
bulk of other matters are trivial despite the allotments having been done as per
preferences given by the concerned students, CAP chief and deputy director (education)
Sunil Magar told reporters.
For instance, Magar said, students have sought change in allotment on grounds such
as, the atmosphere in the allotted college is not good; the college is located very
far from residence; the allotment has been done through open category despite the
candidate belonging to a reserved category; the college is not on the bus route
or the college timings do not match with the timings of coaching class.
Some other reasons include, the allotted college does not have a spacious building;
the allotment be changed to a particular college where the friend of the concerned
student has been given a seat or the hostel allotment should also be done through
CAP. Even reasons as farfetched as the girls are not good or there are too many
foreign students in the allotted college!
Magar said, There is little the panel can do about such complaints considering that
we had conducted very well-attended pre-admission counseling sessions at 16 centres
to brief students and parents about the entire admission process, including precautions
to be taken while giving the 36 preferences, based on which the allotment was to
be effected on merit and as per statutory quota policy.
There are instances where students residing at Pimpri have filled all top colleges
in Pune like Fergusson, Garware, SP, Modern and Wadia, among others, as their first
10 preferences before listing out their choice for colleges in Pimpri. Post allotment,
such students have approached the panel complaining that they have been allotted
seats in Pune whereas they should been given a college in Pimpri.
Similarly, the allotment is effected in a descending order with the open category
allotments taken up first and then the reserved category students. For example,
the first 50 of the 100 seats are allotted as per open general merit where even
high scoring students from reserved category get a seat. The remaining 50 are allotted
as per the quota for various categories like SC, ST, NT etc. Reserved category students,
who get the seat on merit through general category, need not have to fear that they
will lose their quota benefits, he said.
Fergusson College principal R G Pardeshi, who is executive chief of CAP,
viceprincipal Rekha Palshikar, senior CAP member Jagdish Chinchore and former CAP
executive president Dilip Sheth were also present on the occasion.
Courtesy: Times of India
