Admission confirmed as only 1,97,289 apply for 2.77 lakh junior college seats

The first round of junior college online admissions will begin on June 22.

“The intake capacity is more than the number of applications received. The application process was smooth this year and so will be the admission process,” said N B Chavan,deputy director of education.

While 3,01,004 students (freshers and repeaters) passed the SSC exam in Mumbai this year,only 1,91,673 applied for online admissions and 1,87,120 confirmed applications Monday.

“The last two years we witnessed that 40-50 per cent of online applicants opt for offline admissions granted after the online process ends. Of the 1,97,873 students who applied last year,only 91,643 stuck to the online process,” said Jayant Jain,president of Forum for Fairness in Education.

Admissions under various quotas — management,in-house and minority — are granted offline. Colleges have to surrender the remaining seats for online admissions under the open category.

After the completion of the online process,students left out or not allotted seats are admitted offline. Many educationists and experts have been demanding the entire admission process be made online.

Principal of a well-known college in the western suburbs said,“The department should conduct online admissions for all categories and quotas. Why create confusion? Online process would be much more transparent.”

Meanwhile,junior colleges surrendered 34,054 seats to the education department Tuesday after completing the offline admission process.

These include in-house,management and minority quota seats,admissions to which are granted by colleges offline.

The education department will get more seats as the admission process progresses.

If a student gets seats under both the offline and online processess,s/he will surrender the quota seat,which the college will return to the department.

The number of applicants from non-state board schools such as CBSE,ICSE,IGCSE and IB has increased by almost 11 per cent. This year,4,056 CBSE students applied as compared to 3,379 in 2012.

Similarly,applications from ICSE students went up from 5,068 to 6,479.