Leftover FYJC seats for 5,680 CBSE students

Updated on: Thursday, July 07, 2011

Almost 5,680 CSBE students who gave the standard X exams in their respective schools, have been left in the lurch as they have been given provisional or temporary admissions to junior colleges after offline admissions. For the first time this year, CBSE students were given the option of giving the exam in their respective schools or the board exams.

In a closed door meeting with CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi and principal secretary of the School Education department, Sumit Malik, on Tuesday, it was decided that these students can go in for offline admissions into junior colleges. While SSC exams are conducted at centres with centrally set papers, at a CBSE tenth school exam, the individual school decides the papers. As a result, SSC exams are considered difficult by the state government, as compared to the CBSE school based exam. To bring both SSC and CBSE school-based exam students at par, the government decided to give admission preference to SSC students in junior colleges.

The CBSE school-exam students will be given provisional admissions, or temporary admissions in the junior colleges after they apply for admissions offline. Offline admissions mean that after online forms are filled up and the cut-off lists are put up, if seats are available, the 5,680 students might get admissions. “I have not taken admission in any CBSE school so far, as I want to go to a junior college. But this temporary admission procedure is really bugging me, as there is no guarantee whether I will get admission or not,” said a student from DAV school, Nerul.

An official from the school education department who did not wish to be named said, “We have decided to make the admission procedure offline for CBSE students who took the school based exam, so that all the children are on the same platform.” Deepika Shrivastava, principal of Rajhans Vidyalaya said, “The CBSE school-based exam is not being recognised by the Maharashtra government, while we were told that there shall be no discrimination, they will be at par with SSC students. They are not being treated so. It is unjust for the students who have given it.”

PC Chabbra, principal of DPS School, Nerul, said, “We were told that both the exams, SSC and school-based CBSE exams will have the same standing and it is not fair for the government to discriminate.” CBSE chairman Joshi said, “I have made my point to the government. There is no major breakthrough so far. It is upto the government to decide.”

The education minister remained unavailable for comment.

Leftover FYJC seats for 5,680 CBSE students

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