In a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, the city's top commerce college has decided to pull out of the centralized admission process (CAP) which has been in place since a decade. GS College of Commerce will be admitting students directly for the coming academic year. This is the first time ever in CAP's history in the state that a big league college has pulled out.
Confirming the development, principal Dr Rajkumar Varma told TOI: "Spot admissions will be accepted with immediate affect. Students can bring marksheet downloaded from the net now, and on June 28 they can bring the original marksheet for verification," said Varma while refusing to reveal the reason behind the step. "The college management has taken the decision and I'm following the orders," he added.
The college is run by the Wardha-based Shiksha Mandal and was started by Gandhi associate Jamnalal Bajaj in 1945.
The CAP was started in Nagpur to ensure transparency and also to make it easier for students seeking admissions to std XI. Rather than rush from college to college, under CAP the student has to fill just one form and admission is then based on a merit list ranking. For CAP 2011, there are 110 colleges which are offering science faculty, 43 commerce and 67 bifocal.
Though the process has been in place since 10 years, the state education department has not made it mandatory. Rather, colleges can choose to come under its ambit.
Colleges join the system as it makes the overall logistics much easier and gives them a larger pool of students. Nagpur follows the offline CAP which is exactly similar to the one in Pune, whereas in Mumbai the CAP is online. But never in the history of the CAP has such a major level college ever pulled out in Maharashtra.
Significantly, the college too will not admit CBSE students without a signed letter from the school principals as is the new norm with CAP. "The order has come to all colleges from the state education department," said Varma.
The CAP's working president Dr. Baban Taywade said, "CAP is voluntary and it is up to the colleges to take their decision. CAP has been created to ensure transparency in the admission process and over the years we have achieved it. It has been a success and considering we built the system from scratch 10 years ago."
A member of Shiksha Mandal, on condition of anonymity, said that the college has been unhappy with the CAP results. "We wanted to pull out last year only but we were asked to stay back. But this year we gave the principal the green signal to go ahead with direct admissions. The quality of students through CAP were just not up to the mark. The students who come through CAP also include the ones who took a number of attempts to clear their SSC exam. We will release ads for the admission on June 28."
The member also spoke about the delay in starting the academic session. "The process continues late into the month of July and academic sessions under CAP start in August only. We have been assured by the principal that our classes will start between July 10 and July 15," he said.
He college has already admitted a few students. "Admission procedure has been slow and it should pick up once the ad is released," said Varma.
There are many who feel that due to CAP top colleges could not 'financially exploit' their management quota fully. When questioned if admission transparency will be affected, GS principal Varma said, "I don't think our transparency will be affected, and I can guarantee you that we do not adhere to the so-called management quota."
Vishal Shelare, a recent SSC pass out, said, "I had no idea that direct spot admissions are going on at GS but now I will certainly go there for admissions. But if slowly every college does this then it can become a big problem for us as we will have to run from one college to other filling dozens of forms. The CAP is much better, even though the lines are longer but I know that I have to stand here only once."
Last year, the final cut-off at the college was 66.9% and they had 270 seats to offer in the English medium. This year there are 10 seats less on offer.
Confirming the development, principal Dr Rajkumar Varma told TOI: "Spot admissions will be accepted with immediate affect. Students can bring marksheet downloaded from the net now, and on June 28 they can bring the original marksheet for verification," said Varma while refusing to reveal the reason behind the step. "The college management has taken the decision and I'm following the orders," he added.
The college is run by the Wardha-based Shiksha Mandal and was started by Gandhi associate Jamnalal Bajaj in 1945.
The CAP was started in Nagpur to ensure transparency and also to make it easier for students seeking admissions to std XI. Rather than rush from college to college, under CAP the student has to fill just one form and admission is then based on a merit list ranking. For CAP 2011, there are 110 colleges which are offering science faculty, 43 commerce and 67 bifocal.
Though the process has been in place since 10 years, the state education department has not made it mandatory. Rather, colleges can choose to come under its ambit.
Colleges join the system as it makes the overall logistics much easier and gives them a larger pool of students. Nagpur follows the offline CAP which is exactly similar to the one in Pune, whereas in Mumbai the CAP is online. But never in the history of the CAP has such a major level college ever pulled out in Maharashtra.
Significantly, the college too will not admit CBSE students without a signed letter from the school principals as is the new norm with CAP. "The order has come to all colleges from the state education department," said Varma.
The CAP's working president Dr. Baban Taywade said, "CAP is voluntary and it is up to the colleges to take their decision. CAP has been created to ensure transparency in the admission process and over the years we have achieved it. It has been a success and considering we built the system from scratch 10 years ago."
A member of Shiksha Mandal, on condition of anonymity, said that the college has been unhappy with the CAP results. "We wanted to pull out last year only but we were asked to stay back. But this year we gave the principal the green signal to go ahead with direct admissions. The quality of students through CAP were just not up to the mark. The students who come through CAP also include the ones who took a number of attempts to clear their SSC exam. We will release ads for the admission on June 28."
The member also spoke about the delay in starting the academic session. "The process continues late into the month of July and academic sessions under CAP start in August only. We have been assured by the principal that our classes will start between July 10 and July 15," he said.
He college has already admitted a few students. "Admission procedure has been slow and it should pick up once the ad is released," said Varma.
There are many who feel that due to CAP top colleges could not 'financially exploit' their management quota fully. When questioned if admission transparency will be affected, GS principal Varma said, "I don't think our transparency will be affected, and I can guarantee you that we do not adhere to the so-called management quota."
Vishal Shelare, a recent SSC pass out, said, "I had no idea that direct spot admissions are going on at GS but now I will certainly go there for admissions. But if slowly every college does this then it can become a big problem for us as we will have to run from one college to other filling dozens of forms. The CAP is much better, even though the lines are longer but I know that I have to stand here only once."
Last year, the final cut-off at the college was 66.9% and they had 270 seats to offer in the English medium. This year there are 10 seats less on offer.
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