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| Admission seeker students beaten up | | | Early Times Report
Jammu July 8: Like every year during the admission process for Part I in the city colleges this year too the colleges have to face the wrath of the admission seekers. As large number of admission seekers inspite of assurances from the respective college authorities on admission in part I of various streams today once again staged protest demonstration.
During the today’s protest police detained a group of student leaders reportedly held them at Ware House Police Post. One of the student leaders of JJSF who led students outside Parade Ground Degree College said when they received information about the visit of senior officials of the higher education department to Parade degree college group. The protesting students sit inside Gandhi Nagar Degree College proceeded towards the parade college but they were stopped by heavy police force near Bikram Chowk, he said.
According to student leaders a group of students who were denied admission in Gandhinagar Women Degree College were moving towards Parade Degree College on foot when police contingent forcefully stopped them at Bikram chowk and also beat up student leaders of Jammu Joint students federation.
The aspirants demanding open admission are taking out protest marches for last four days in order to ensure their admission in the degree colleges of their choice.
On the other hand senior authorities of the different degree colleges are grappling with piquant situation arising out of acute shortage of vacant seats.
As most of these admission seekers are from far flung areas where there are already degree colleges being opened by the Government but inspite of taking admission in these colleges they have been opted for city colleges which have not much of the capacity to get all the aspirants admitted in the colleges. While talking to some of the admission seekers, they said that the colleges in there area have not proper infrastructure and the staff. So they have applied for the admissions in the city colleges.
Principal Women College Gandhi Nagar college Nalini Kohli on Wednesday said that in the absence of vacant seats the college authorities are not in a position to absorb all the students desirous of seeking admission in city degree colleges. She claimed that the state government had opened large number of degree colleges outside Jammu and students
Coming from far flung areas should first seek admission in these colleges before applying for seats in Jammu.
It needs to be mention that yesterday she have assured that all the students who have filled up the pre admission forms at GCW Gandhi Nagar can be accommodated in the college because the total number of pre admission forms submitted are less than 2100 whereas the total in take capacity of the college is more than 2100 students. Thus, all students who have already submitted the pre-admission forms can seek admission in the college provided they are ready to seek admission in the streams where the seats are still vacant such as Arts and Home Sciences.
Similarly the Savitri Sharma, Principal GCW, Parade told students to seek admission in arts and sciences where the seats are still vacant but the issue of increasing the seats in Commerce stream still remained unresolved as there are 700 pre-admission applications against the 400 seats in Commerce stream.
Principal had assured the students that the total number of seats in commerce stream will be increased but the final decision on the issue will be taken after a meeting with the Commissioner Secretary tomorrow.
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