Yogita Rao
After a traumatic experience for two consecutive years, the government this year has managed to start the online admissions smoothly.
While most SSC students managed to fill their forms without any problems on the first day of the admission process. Friday, a few ICSE schools faced minor issues in the beginning. But everything was sorted out by noon ICSE schools also received instructions on Friday about allowing their students to avail of the additional sports marks.
The ICSE students, who had filled their forms before the Supreme Court passed its order on the Best-five issue, found that their online status was 'incomplete'. The forms for these students had to be reset.
"We could not avail the Best-five option initially," Perin Bagli, principle of Activity High School and the secretary of the ICSE schools Association in Mumbai, said. "We later realised that the forms had to be reset and filled in again. Several schools approached and we helped them out The website was running smoothly,"
Students who could benefit from the additional sports marks could not fill their online forms on Friday because the schools received the instruction late. "Students have been asked to get certificates from the sports district authority and signatures of principals on the form and submit it to the south Indian Welfare Society in Wadala," Bagli said. "The organisation will inform the respective schools."
Even SSC schools have managed to fill the forms without any issues. " We did not face any problem during the online filling process," RJ Rajput, principal of MH High School (SSC) in Thane, said.
Deepshikha Srivastava, principal of Rajhans School in Andheri, said most of the work was done. "We do not have much work as few students leave our board," Srivastava said.
Several students preferred not to fill the form on the first day to avoid possible glitches. CV Hegde, one of the petitioners in the Best-five case, did not rush to fill up the form for his son Gautam, a student of campion High School. "We have 10 days to fill the form," Hegde said. "The initial days are generally chaotic. So, we decided to fill up the online form next week.' With the cut-off marks for FYJC admissions expected to go up, the first day of the sale of forms for minority and in-house students drew a huge crowd.
Bhaidas Hall campus in Juhu was teeming with students aspiring to get in to Mithibai and Narsee Monjee colleges in Vile Parle. Most were seen waiting for hours in long queues to get either an in-house or a minority form.
Purvesh Sevak, an SSC students from Goklibai High School, affiliated to the SVKM Management, scored 92.91% and stood in the queue for almost two hours to get a form. He wanted to get an admission into science bifocals like electronics or computer science SVKM runs the Mithibai and NM colleges too.
"Since many people have scored in the 90% bracket this year, every decimal counts," Sevak said. "I am praying to get in through the minority quota. Even with 92%, I will not get in the general category. I have never been more thankful for being a Gujarati."
Several students like Sevak are hoping that the 50% minority seats will get them into top colleges. "We are surprised seeing so many students queue up for the minority and in-house forms," Sangita Kher, vice-principal, Narsee Monjee College, said. "We sold more than 500 forms today. Though we will try to accommodate everyone, we have only 560 seats in the minority quota." Narsee Monjee College has Gujarati linguistic minority.
Though colleges try to keep a low cut-off for minority quota, principals say it might not be below 70% or 80% this year. "We will try not to keep a difference of more than 10% between the minority and the general category," Kirti Narain, principal of Jai Hind college, Churchgate, said. "The cut-offs for minority may be high this time."
Expert help
This is the first year when secondary schools, along with colleges, are involved in the junior college admissions. Most of the forms of state board students have been asked to fill their forms their respective schools.
"We have divided our students in batches of 40 students," Asha Desai, Principal of cosmopolitan School, Andheri, said. "We will have three batches every day and we plan to finish the process in four days. Our experts will ensure that students do not opt for colleges that are beyond their reach."
Last year chaos
Just hours after it launched last year, the 'crash-proof website' crashed as droves of students logged on to fill application forms
The Website created by Maharashtra Knowledge corporation Ltd was inaccessible to students from noon to 3pm
Though 1,92,000 registered on the first day,only 38,600 students managed to fill their forms and only a few thousands managed to submit the forms
The website started picking up speed on the second and third day
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