The FYJC online admission process may have got messier owing to the stand-off between parents and the deputy director of education (DYDE) office.
The FYJC online admission process may have got messier owing to the stand-off between parents and the deputy director of education (DYDE) office. While officials say that students should take admission in colleges allotted to them, parents are adamant and demanding a change of college.
As a result, hundreds of students have not yet been admitted even as lectures in junior colleges have begun.
On Wednesday, students and parents received cellphone messages asking them to take admission to the college that was allotted to them in the fourth and final round of the FYJC online admission process.
Students who had not taken admission after the fourth list was declared said that the message was exhorting them to take admission in the same college that they had rejected almost ten days back.
“We had been expecting the DYDE to send us messages informing us about seats having been allotted in colleges of our choice, however that was not to be. If we wanted to take admission in the allotted college, we would have done so and not waited for the message,” said a student who has been seeking a seat in a South Mumbai college where the cut-off percentage was 84.2 per cent. The student had secured 88 per cent in the class 10 examination.
According to DYDE officials, as per the high court order, all admissions to FYJC classes had to be done through the online process. This included the offline process too and hence, the students who had not yet secured their seat were re-sent the message.
“Parents and students do not understand that the DYDE office cannot allot seats manually and the same is done through the online software. As four merit lists were issued and there will be no more rounds, the students were asked to take admission to the seat allotted in the last round. If they do not take admission, then they will have to refill the online form for the new procedure that we are starting from August 8,” said the official.
Parents and students are, however, adamant and say that unless they get admission in the college of their choice they will not take it. “We have a percentage that is higher than the cut-off,” said a parent, adding that they would prefer not to send their child to junior college rather than taking a seat in a college where the cut offs are way lower than the percentage secured by their child.
