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| 11th
March 2010 / Times of India / Pune Edition |
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 CAP must for polytechnics
Diploma Admissions through Process Conducted By DTE
Pune: The state department for higher and technical education has made it compulsory for all polytechnics, including private unaided institutions, to effect their first year post-SSC (class X) and post-HSC (class XII) diploma admissions for academic year 2010-11 through a centralized admission process (CAP) conducted by the director of technical education (DTE).
S K Mahajan, DTE, has issued a letter on March 9 to the regional joint directors for technical education, asking them to convey the CAP provision to all the government run, aided and unaided polytechnics in their respective jurisdictions.
On March 4, the state department had issued a government resolution (GR) declaring CAP as mandatory for diploma admissions. The GR also stated that only those students admitted through CAP will get government benefits like free ships, scholarships or reimbursement of fees.
The state has 302 private unaided polytechnics, which were, hitherto, not covered by the CAP that was first introduced last year for admissions to the 36 government-run and 18 aided polytechnics for AY 2009-10.
The move then was spurred by the need to relieve diploma aspirants from the costly and time-consuming exercise of approaching individual institutions to submit their admission forms, besides ensuring them a wider choice of institutions through the CAP.
Organizations like the Teachers’ Association for Non-aided Polytechnics (TAFNAP) were since pursuing with the state department to get the unaided polytechnics within the ambit of the CAP and check the exploitation of students at the institute-level admission process.
Extending CAP to private unaided polytechnics means that all these institutions will have to follow the government rules and effect allotment of seats on the basis of a centrally-drafted merit list. The unaided institutions have not taken kindly to the move as already there are murmurs of protest.
“There is ambiguity in the GR as well as Mahajan’s letter as far as the mandatory part is concerned,” said a senior office-bearer of the Association of Managements of Unaided Polytechnics. “We will study the government directive and finalize our approach soon,” he said.
“The DTE had asked all unaided polytechnics on December 31, 2009, to convey, by way of a Rs 100 stamp paper document, their willingness or reluctance to join the CAP for 2010-11 by January 15. Most institutions carried out this instruction and now to say that the CAP is mandatory for all, raises question as to what is the validity of the undertaking submitted by the institutions,” he said.
President of TAFNAP Shridhar Vaidya has, however, welcomed the government move on the grounds that the same will curb undue exploitation of students and bring greater transparency in the admission process. |
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