Students seeking admissions to Class 11 in Maharashtra but were blocked by colleges over their inability to provide non-creamy layer certificates have now been given three months to submit the document. They will have to furnish an undertaking that they will submit the certificate within three months along with a Maha e-Seva Kendra application receipt, failing which the admission will be cancelled. College authorities had insisted that students produce original non-creamy layer certificates though some of them had shown Maha e-Seva Kendra receipts as proof. At Fergusson College, a group of students and parents told The Indian Express that they were relieved to hear about the new window. “Earlier there wasn’t even a provision for provisional admission with an undertaking and the e-Seva receipt, so we panicked,” said a parent after completing the admission procedure. The last date of the three-step admission process for junior colleges is June 24. Students are being admitted solely on the basis of merit i.e. the percentile they have scored in the SSC board examination. A student said, "I was afraid and thought that I won’t get admission, but the college authorities were very helpful and told us to wait until the CAP decision. Finally it feels great that we can now fill the undertaking and join the session." Classes at junior colleges are most likely to start from next month.
