KARACHI : CAP body told to complete admission process by 9th
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 3: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi has asked the Centralised Admission Policy Committee to complete its process of college admissions by Oct 9 so that formal classes could be conducted in all colleges and higher secondary schools without wasting any further time of the current academic session.
In a letter written to CAP committee, board official said the current session had already lost two months as the session had formally begun on Aug 9 after the end of two-month-long summer vacations.
CAP committee had extended its deadline at least twice due to delay by the Board of Secondary Education Karachi in distributing consolidated result sheets to the successful candidates.
Admission process could complete by Sept 25 when CAP committee had announced its final placement list for the commerce (female) faculty. However, more than 50 colleges and higher secondary schools, mostly in the impoverished parts of the city, reported that they still had ample vacant seats after which CAP committee authorized them to fill the seats at their own keeping in view the eligibility of the candidates.
Board officials said the exercise conducted by CAP committee had already taken much time and any further delay would create hurdles in the implementation of 75 per cent mandatory attendance rule of the board.
“We have sent a letter to CAP officials to complete the exercise forthwith so that the session could formally begin,” BIEK chairman Anwar Ahmed Zai told Dawn.
He said CAP officials had also been asked to formulate a comprehensive plan under which the board could be informed of the transfers of students from one college to another so that their attendance record could also be shifted and updated.
CAP Committee Chairman Dr Rafique Ahmed Siddiqui said they had almost completed the admission process and what still remained were just the fate of some applicants who submitted forms at the 13 claim centres.
“Some 11 of the claim centres would stop working this week but the remaining two – one each for boys and girls – would work till the end of the next week to decide the remaining claims,” he said, adding that the two claim centres were set up in Adamjee Boys College and Govt Women’s College, Frere Road.
