Punjab Government on Wednesday launched the centralized admission portal for admissions in the Government Colleges of the state affiliated with Panjab University, Punjabi University, and Guru Nanak Dev University.
Launching the portal, Punjab’s Higher Education and Languages Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said that the State Government is working swiftly to ensure our youngsters get all the latest online services making their education and studies related endeavours easier and efficient.
The Centralized State Admission portal has been fully developed by the Department of Governance Reforms (DoGR) in collaboration with Department of Higher Education (DHE), Punjab, and will ensure fulsome transparency and ease, the Minister said, adding that more such measures are in the offing.
“The DoGR with the assistance of DHE has made the state admission portal for the current session (2022-23). Further DoGR has roped in PayGov India (Payment Gateway Partner) to facilitate digital mode of fee collection from student and its reconciliation,” he added.
The Common Admission platform for candidates will serve as a central hub for applicants for their end to end admission journey and students will be able to file a single application form for applying admission in multiple colleges and courses.
The portal will ensure a contactless admissions process without physical counselling. The fee payment system will be online; and will also ensure ease of communication with students. Application Manager allows colleges to communicate with applicants directly via an email or individual or bulk SMS or for a call to complete the form or to remove the objections or to make the fee payment etc.
There will be total transparency in preparing the merit list and students will be able to see the admission process online in a transparent manner.