A large number of students in the State eying admission seem to have trained their focus on DAV (PG) College while there is a large number of seats in other Government degree colleges lying vacant. A centralised admission process is the need of the hour and sooner or later, the Government will have to implement this process in the State. This was what some educationalists said while talking to The Pioneer on Friday.
A higher education department officer said there are 95 government degree colleges and government- aided degree colleges which are affiliated with HNB Garhwal University, Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University, Kumaon University and others. DAV (PG) College is the only college in the state where around 35, 000 students are enrolled in various bachelor, post graduation courses till last year.
However, there are several government degree colleges, especially in mountainous parts of the state, where very few students are enrolled. According to him, most of the students long to enroll in the DAV (PG) College because they are interested only in appearing in the examinations. In Government Degree College, Majra Mahadev and GDC, Gairsain, around 80 students are studying here and around 200 seats have been allocated by the University for admissions in various bachelor degree courses. The introduction of centralised admission process is prerogative of the University and the state may ask the state university like Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University to implement centralised admission process in its affiliated colleges.
SGRR (PG) College Admission Cell in-charge and head of Chemistry department AK Gupta said that several universities, including Delhi University and Meerut University, have adopted centralised admission process and the students are given options in the centralised admission forms to choose the college and based on their rankings in the merit list, students are allocated college. Students may choose private college too if they fail to get admission in the colleges of their choice.
Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University Vice Chancellor US Rawat said, “Following the direction of the state government, we are working on giving affiliation to the government degree colleges and government aided degree colleges. As of now, there is no such proposal and we may think over this if such a proposal comes.”
An associated professor said given the available infrastructure, Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University cannot introduce centralised admission process. But if the Government starts
preparation now this state university may introduce centralised admission process from the next academic year. “Centralised admission process is need of the hour and sooner or later, the Government will have to implement this process in the State,” he added.