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Maharashtra School Education Minister Dada Bhuse has announced that students in classes 1 and 2 will be taught only to speak a third language (File photo)Maharashtra School Education and Sports Minister Dada Bhuse on Saturday said that even with the delay in the Class 11 First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions due to technical reasons this year, the admission process was being conducted on a similar timeline as last year.
The junior college admission process this time around is being conducted through a Central Application Process (CAP) in an online mode throughout the state for the first time. This process has seen multiple delays. Originally, the first round CAP allotment of junior colleges was to be announced on June 10. However, it has now been pushed to June 26.
Responding to a question by the Indian Express about the inconvenience caused to students due to this delay after an event at Ganesh Kala Krida in Pune, Bhuse said, “The delay has happened due to some technical reasons. But if you compare with the previous year, then the admission process is happening at the same time.”
This raises a question about the effectiveness of implementing an online admissions system across the state. With the state board results being declared early to facilitate early admissions, technical faults with the application website has led to the progress being reset to a timeline similar to previous years. Applicants have been left hanging due to the delay.
According to data shared in a notice by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, a total of 60,487 students have been admitted from June 12-14 under the various quotas available for Class 11 admissions out of 1,13,078 applicants. These are the final admission numbers under the quota admissions, which takes place before the normal merit list admissions.
Of the total, 26521 students have been admitted under the in-house quota, 7,756 students have been admitted under the management quota, 26,210 students have been admitted under the minority quota.