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Private colleges yet to begin BEd admission
NEARLY 1005 students, who have cleared B.Ed entrance examination conducted by the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), have become the victim of the ongoing tussle among the management of the various private colleges running the B.Ed courses. They could not get admission till date.
NEARLY 1005 students, who have cleared B.Ed entrance examination conducted by the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), have become the victim of the ongoing tussle among the management of the various private colleges running the B.Ed courses. They could not get admission till date.
On the other hand, management of some of the private colleges are afraid of heavy financial loss if the admissions were not made soon to avoid the session being declared as ‘zero’ session.
However, the issue was brought to the notice of the State Government for issuing necessary directives in connection with the adoption of admission process, but it could not take any decision so far. The State Government has not been able to decide the admission policy to issue directives to the private college management. The admission process at all the private colleges was stalled.
The problem was created following the directives of the Supreme Court that a single window system be adopted for admissions in the professional courses. Under the new system the private colleges had the option of taking admission through the entrance test conducted by the university or they should form their own separate State level organisation for conducting entrance tests for their respective colleges.
The management of the private colleges preferred to form a State level body for conducting entrance tests to enjoy their exclusive rights to admissions.
According to them if they accepted admission through the merit list prepared by the university they would have to give up their claim over filling 15 per cent seats from management quota charging huge fee. Consequently, they decided to constitute their own separate board for conducting entrance examination. Several college management constituted a State body — ‘UP Management of Association Self-Finance Teachers Training College’ — and decided to hold entrance test on October 15, 2006 to grant admissions to the students by November 2006..
However, many of the private colleges did not like the system and preferred to take admissions according to the merit list of the university. Considering the dissensions, the committee headed by Justice Harinath Tilhari stopped the admission process in these colleges.
On the other hand, many private colleges urged the university to send the merit list for admission. But the legal complexities also restrained the university in issuing merit list of the students to these colleges. This created problem for a large number of candidates, who preferred admission to the private colleges.
Now, it is learnt that the matter has been referred to the State Government for issuing necessary directives to save the academic year of the students.
