Three BMC Junior colleges to be opened this academic year

Updated on: Friday, July 03, 2009

Mumbai: In a bid to provide full-fledge education to the underprivileged students getting enrolled in the three new Science junior colleges to be set up by BMC through a joint venture, the civic body would spend nearly Rs 50,000 on a single student for an academic year.

These three colleges will be the first to be introduced by the civic body. All three colleges will offer the Science stream and will be open from July 16, Mayor Shubha Raul said.

'The students belonging to poor families whose financial conditions are bad will truly benefit from these colleges. We are going to provide facilities to these students with Computer labs, laboratory, library and other facilities,' the Mayor said.

The colleges will be located at suburban Vile Parle and Mulund and Dadar in central Mumbai. One of the coaching classes, IITian's Pace, will run the colleges at Mulund and Dadar, while the college at Vile Parle will be run by Yukti Classes.

According to civic officials, each college will have 100 seats, of which 50 will be reserved for BMC school students, and the remaining 50 seats from other schools, she said.

Of the 50 seats for BMC children, 25 will be for those who have studied in a BMC school till Class X, while the remaining 25 will be for those who have studied in a civic school till Class VII.

The 50 students from each college studied from BMC schools will be coached for the IIT-JEE free of cost. Fifty percent of their coaching fees will be borne by the coaching class and the rest will be borne by the civic body, she said.

While the remaining 50 students who are not from BMC schools will have to pay the regular junior college fees. If these students wish to apply for IIT coaching, the fees will be the same as what the regular coaching class fee, which is nearly Rs 2.5 lakh for two years, in case of IITs pace-JEE, civic officials said.

The BMC has signed the Memorandum of Understanding with two IIT coaching classes - IITians Pace and Yukti Classes to start three junior colleges in the metropolis.

'The civic body will provide the buildings and the coaching classes will run the colleges. The coaching classes will not only prepare students for the Joint Entrance Exam to the Indian Institute of Technology but they will also hire regular staff for the college, including English and Hindi teachers,' BMC Education Officer Abhasaheb Jadhav said.

'We are thinking of coming up with more colleges by next year...but nothing is officially yet decided. In the near future we would set more colleges after analysing the performance of these three colleges,' Raul added.

Three BMC Junior colleges to be opened this academic year

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