KARACHI, Sept 19: The placement lists of female candidates, who had applied for admission to first year classes at government run colleges and higher secondary school, was released on Friday.
The Centralized Admission Committee placed 5,754 students against 6,090 seats available in the commerce faculty at 29 colleges and one higher secondary school. Students having secured below 45 per cent marks in SSC exams were not considered for the admission, as this could allow students more than the leftover 336 seats.
A total of 650 students were given admissions in Premier Govt College, followed by 401 in Govt College of Commerce and Economics, 352 in Islamia Govt College for Women, 304 in Govt College for Women, F B Area and 303 students were offered admissions in H.I. Osmania Govt College for Women.
Many of the D graders and entire lot of E graders were not given admission.
Talking about the deviation from the admission policy of the government, a senior member of the committee said that it was not possible to entertain all applicants for admission to commerce group due to certain limited seats.
He said that the committee had to fix around 45 per cent as cut off marks in the given situation. “If we go for filling the vacant seats we will have to reduce the cut off marks to 40 per cent or around and as such the number of students falling in the new group would go beyond the capacity of colleges,” he added.
During a press briefing on admission lists, the EDO (Higher Education), Prof Muhammad Rais Alvi, said that the demand of female students for admission to commerce faculty was increasing with the passage of time.
In the year 2000, about 2,500 female students were given admission to commerce classes, which had now gone up to 6,000, he added.
He said that the left over about 1,000 applicants for admissions to commerce faculty, having secured D or E grades, would be placed in arts faculty and as such none of the applicants would be left without admission to colleges or higher secondary schools.
The merit marks for admission were recorded increased at PECHS College, Khatoon-e-Pakistan College, Sir Syed College, Gulshan-i-Iqbal College, APWA College, Abdullah College, Korangi- 4 Girls College, Khurshid Girls College.
In all, 212 A-1 graders; 1,058 A-graders; 1,950 B-graders; 2,050 C-graders and 484 D-graders were placed for admissions.
POSTGRADUATE: Speaking at the press briefing, DO Education (Colleges), Prof Haroon Rashid, said that the government in principle had decided to launch postgraduate programme at six colleges in the city.
He said that a meeting was held in this regard at his office on Friday and departments concerned had been asked to assess the available infrastructural and academic facilities to address the shortage if any so that the postgraduate classes could be started at colleges with the commencement of new academic session.
The colleges where postgraduate classes have been planned are: Premier College (Girls Section), Govt Lyari Girls College, Korangi-4 Girls College, New Karachi Girls College, Shahrah-i- Liaquat College for Women and Shaheed-i-Millat Girls College.
CLAIM FORMS: The admission committee through its centres set up at three male and three female colleges had received about 5,000 claims from students, who have objection in regard to their placement. The students have demanded for reconsideration of their cases and placement at the college of their demand.
A member of the committee said that from Sept 3 to 12, a total of 1,056 claims were submitted by the students, while on Sept 13 another 1,400 forms were submitted. “We have cleared the first bunch of about 1,050 applications, while work on the applications received on Sept 13 was in progress and students or their parents were being informed subsequently,” he added.
He said that 50 per cent of the claims were proved invalid, while 10 per cent were found genuine and the respective students had been placed at colleges according to their merit. He said there was flaw in 10 per cent of the cases to omission and error on the part of admission committee staff.
About the remaining 40 per cent of the claims, the member said that students had admitted their error in filling the application forms for admission and requested for sympathetic consideration. Students maintained that they had given wrong priorities in the column of colleges due to the poor knowledge about the centralized admission system, but they should be accommodated at the colleges as mentioned in the claim forms, added the member. The cases of such students were also being reviewed and placed at the colleges of their fresh demand, provided they match the already established merit marks at any given educational institution.
