Allow offline admission facility to students demand teaching staff of Barkatullah University

Updated on: Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Teaching staff in Barkatullah University, Bhopal are demanding that the state government allow offline admission facility to students while extending the online facility from next academic session.

The higher education department has extended the facility of online admissions to all teaching departments in universities of the state after it introduced online admission facility for colleges during the current academic session.

"Expecting success of online admissions when digital divide is high is a mistake," said BU's senior professor, HS Yadav who is also the president of BU Teaching Association (BUTA). "The online admission has benefitted more the urban students while the students in far districts have to face several problems like last year seen in colleges," said Yadav.

He suggested that the online should not be made mandatory in university admission. "They should also allow off-line admission with the online admissions. Let students decide whether they wish to take online or off-line admissions," he said.

However, the university authorities are confident about success of online admissions'. "We are all prepared and will introduce online admission from this year," said BU registrar, Dr Sanjay Tiwari. He added that the online admission would make it easier for students to take admission.

BU has 350 affiliated colleges in 8 districts of the state including Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Vidisha, Raisen, Itarsi and others.

Dr Tiwari said, "In the absence of online admission, the admission process could not be streamlined which was proving to be a tough task to meet with academic calendar. Students had to visit BU physically from other districts to take admission which was unnecessary and time consuming. Online admission will address this issue."

Reacting about the criticism of online admission in colleges, Dr Tiwari said, "We are not much worried as the number of students in university teaching departments (UTD) are just about 4,000 which is comparatively lesser than the one lakh or more students taking admission in colleges," he said.

On the condition of anonymity, students planning to take admission in UTDs this year hailed the online admission but hoped that it would be glitch free.

"Several students last year could not take admission owing several problems with the online admission procedure as their records were not found at the time of depositing the fee and others. I hope such problems would not be seen in university online admissions," said a student.

Allow offline admission facility to students demand teaching staff of Barkatullah University

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