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Latest News |
| 26th
July 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Majority rush to grab minority quota seats
Mumbai: Several top colleges in the city are either religious
or linguistic minority institutes; 50% of the seats in
every stream have to be filled by admitting students belonging
to that minority. Admissions for the quota seats are not
conducted online. Minority quota colleges conduct three
rounds of admissions and seats that remain unfilled are
handed over to the state government, which de-reserves
them and adds them to the pool of general seats for online
admission.
And most of these colleges believe this year that they
will fill up their minority quota seats.
Principal of St Xaviers College, Father Frazer Mascarenhas
is more than confident that the college will be able to
fill up all the seats it offers in the minority quota.
He said, “For students who are part of the Christian
minority, we offer 165 seats in science as well as humanities.
After the declaration of the first merit list, most of
our seats in this quota have already filled up. We have
only about 20-30 seats to offer in each stream for the
second minority quota list.’’
Sindhi linguistic minority Swami Vivekanand College has
received 64 applications for the 75 science seats it has
to offer, and will surrender the unfilled seats to the
government.
“We have only released a second merit list for commerce
which is still in demand. We have already filled 73 out
of the 104 commerce seats. Also, all 33 seats in vocational
science have been occupied,’’ said Swami Vivekanand
College principal Bina Gole.
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