Minority colleges may have more general seats - GR Issued Last Year May Be Implemented

Degree college aspirants in the open category are likely to get more seats in unaided minority colleges this year, if they implement a state government resolution.Dated June 18, 2014, it enlists rules of admissions for minority institutions and makes it voluntary for them to reserve seats for constitutional quotas such as SCST and OBC. Since the circular came after the admission process was almost getting over last year, it may be implemented by colleges for the first time this year. Most college managements will take a decision on it in a few days.Most top city institutions fall under the minority category .

Minority colleges have to reserve 51% seats for the religious and linguistic minority they belong to; the rest was filled with constitutional reservations and open category students till last year. Since the GR issued by the minority welfare department came when most admissions were completed in degree colleges last year, most could not implement it. A principal said it clearly states that unaided minority colleges can admit reserved category students.“The interpretation of the circular was done by our management only this year.  We are yet to take a decision on it as it is highly sensitive.  We will wait and see what other colleges do,“ said the principal.

Another principal pointed out that since the state government itself has made it voluntary , some colleges may prefer admitting students only from the open category .“Our management will take a decision in a day or two,“ said the principal. Traditional programmes are not of concern, it is self-financed program-mes such as BMS, BAF and BBI where colleges have received more than 10 times applications for 60 seats. If a minority college has only 60 seats in BAF, over 30 seats were earlier reserved for students from the minority quota and of the remaining, 50% each were filled with open category students and other constitutional reservations.  Open category students in such courses got 12-15 seats, thereby pushing up cut-offs. If colleges do away with constitutional reservations, more seats will be kept aside for general category students. If they accommodate more students, cut-offs also may drop in some courses.

But a principal said students from socially backward classes also need representation in good colleges, so they may continue to follow the process they followed till last year. Another principal said a decision will be taken by the management, taking into ac

Source | Times of India | 15 June 2015