August 12, 2008	Tuesday	Sha'aban 9, 1429

KARACHI, Aug 11: The admission committee formed under the Centralized Admission Policy-2008 (CAP) has impressed upon all candidates seeking admission to class-XI to fill in their placement forms very carefully keeping in mind that no change in their faculty or the order of their preferred colleges will be allowed once the placement lists are issued.

A senior member of the committee said here on Monday that a claim form of a candidate seeking such a change after issuance of the lists will be declared invalid and ultimately rejected.

Dispelling the impression that the claim form facility could be misused by those who would fail to get admission to the colleges of their choice or, for that matter, any of the city colleges, sources in the directorate-general of colleges, Sindh, made it clear that all claim forms for admission to a college where the cut-off marks would be higher than the candidate’s marks would be considered as invalid and thus rejected.

“Even the claims for a replacement on the grounds of change of address will not be entertained at all,” they added.

Reiterating that the education department has not increased admission or tuition fee for class-XI, the sources said that the fee structure this year would remain the same at all faculties.

Giving a breakup of the faculty-wise fee structure, officials of the directorate-general said that the total fee for Science and Home Economics groups students was fixed at Rs950, which included admission fee (Rs50), tuition fee (Rs480) and college management committee fund (Rs100). The total fee for Commerce and Humanities groups was fixed at Rs770, which included admission fee (Rs30), tuition fee (Rs360) and CMC fund (Rs100).

Forms in short supply

The process of admission to class-XI in the city’s 123 government colleges will be completed by the end of current month and the new academic session will commence in the first week of September, it is learnt.

Though the process began on Aug 5, it is still confined to the issuance of brochures/placement forms through the designated bank branches because most of the admission seekers cannot submit the forms for want of marks sheets of their matriculation examinations which are yet to be delivered to them.

It has also been gathered that the forms for the placement of candidates in government colleges are in short supply. People in large numbers have been contacting newspaper offices to complain that several designated bank branches in various localities of the city were running short of the forms.

While most of the complainants came from the city’s suburban areas, some others appeared to be residing in the Federal B’ Area’s localities of Shahrah-i-Pakistan and Yousuf Plaza.

An official of the directorate-general of colleges, Sindh, however, explained that the admission had made elaborate arrangements to ensure availability of the forms along with brochures in every nook and corner of the city.

“The committee has designated as many as 42 branches of HBL to cover all 18 towns of the metropolis for the purpose,” he said.

He also pointed out that the CAP committee had set up 12 claim centres — five for male and seven for female students — for the removal of technical errors that could arise in the process of the placement process.

The claim centres for male candidates have been set up at the Govt College for Men, Nazimabad; Jinnah College, near the BSEK office; DJ Science College; Adamjee Science College and Superior Science College, Shah Faisal Colony.

For female candidates, the centres have been set up at the Govt College for Women, Nazimabad; Karachi College for Women, Chand Bibi Road; Abdullah College for Women, North Nazimabad; Degree Science and Commerce College, Gulshan-i-Iqbal; Khursheed Girls College, Shah Faisal Colony; Govt College for Women, Korangi No.4 and Shaheed-i-Millat Girls College, Azizabad.