Panel to study issues in online admissions

Updated on: Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Three months after a delegation of college principals met school education minister Rajendra Darda to discuss loopholes in the online admission system, the state government has finally formed a committee to study the issue. The committee will look at ways to improve the system and make it glitch-free based on the problems faced by students, parents and colleges during the admission process.

The principal secretary of the school education department will be the chairman of the committee, while the members include the director of school education, chairman of the Maharashtra state board of secondary and higher secondary education and the deputy secretary of higher and technical education department. The government has also included principal T A Shiware of the Association of Non-Government Colleges and Kiran Mangaonkar, principal of Mithibai College, as members, along with representatives from the media and parent-teacher associations.

The online system for junior college admissions was launched in the academic year 2009-10. Even after three years of implementation, colleges and students found it difficult to adapt to it.

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