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Dearth of seats may hit undergraduate students
OVER 10,000 students are likely to face difficulty in admission in graduate courses in colleges affiliated to Sri Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University (SCSJM) this year due to inadequate number of seats in each college .
OVER 10,000 students are likely to face difficulty in admission in graduate courses in colleges affiliated to Sri Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University (SCSJM) this year due to inadequate number of seats in each college .
Admissions to graduate courses in degree colleges here are to begin from Monday (June 26). The educationists are apprehensive of law and order problem in the wake of denial of admission to a large number of candidates.
According to a rough estimate, there are over 57,124 candidates who have cleared intermediate examinations from different Boards and need admission to B.A, B.Sc and B. Com. The total number of seats available in the colleges are 47,020. This number includes the 20 per cent seats raised. To accommodate all the successful candidates, the colleges will require at least 12,000 additional seats in different faculties. In order to meet the admission crisis ,in the previous year 620 seats were raised through opening evening classes. But this number will prove to be insignificant this year. However, the government can grant permission to more colleges for opening evening classes by making certain relaxations in the norms fixed by the university and the UGC.
As per the university decision, in order to get approval for running evening classes, the college management will have to satisfy the authorities of Sri Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj Unversity (SCSJM) about the existing status of classrooms , seating capacity, adequate number of qualified teachers and laboratory facility in case of science classes.
The university has also decided to allow evening classes at the colleges who fulfilled the required norms and had the facility to run these extra classes between 1.30 PM to 5 PM. No evening classes will be permitted during late evening.
Amidst these strict norms, it will not be possible for many colleges to opt for evening classes to ease the admission pressure.Above all, a large number of students do not prefer to join evening classes. According to them, the experiences of their predecessors have led them to believe that they were treated as second grade students and none of their problems was taken care of by the college management .
Students at the aided colleges faced the scarcity of qualified teachers throughout the year but the college management could not arrange teachers.
