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Admission to minority seats included in CAP

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : Jun 20, 2016, 1:26 am IST
Updated : Jun 20, 2016, 1:26 am IST

With a view to curb corrupt practices in the admission process to engineering colleges, the government of Maharashtra has included admission to minority quota seats in the Centralised Admission Proces

With a view to curb corrupt practices in the admission process to engineering colleges, the government of Maharashtra has included admission to minority quota seats in the Centralised Admission Process (CAP).

This has not gone down well with the managements of minority institutions. According to officials, there have been complaints of minority institutions misusing their status to admit students of other communities thus defeating the purpose, hence it was decided to include the minority quota seats under the CAP round.

According to an official from the Directorate of Technical Education, the government has been receiving numerous complaints about minority institutions resorting to unfair practices and allotting seats to students from out the minority community thus refusing admission to eligible students. To address this problem the government came out with an order bringing admissions to minority institutions under the CAP rounds too.

However, the minority institutions had complained to minority development department regarding the same. But after it was assured that the minority institutions would not lose their right to their minority quota seats, the process was allowed to continue.

Speaking about the issue, Dr S.K. Mahajan, director Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), said that the process would in no way compromise the rights of the minority institutions. “Before the start of the admission process the minority institutions had been asked to specify the number of seats to be filled through the quota and the same was included in the CAP. Thus rather than minority institutions directly admitting students, they will now be admitted though the CAP.”