KARACHI, July 27: The Centralised Admission Policy (CAP) Committee of the Sindh education department is all set to start admissions to first year classes of the colleges and higher secondary schools in the city from August 7, said official sources.

A meeting of the CAP committee was held to review the arrangements for admissions to government colleges on Thursday at the PECHS Government Girls Degree College. The members of the committee were told that brochures containing relevant information and details of 119 city colleges where admissions would be offered would be ready by next week.

The admission forms and brochures will be sold at 40 designated branches of HBL in various parts of the city, which would also receive back duly filled forms from the students. If everything went in direction and the BSE announces the SSC science group results latest by July 31st, the deadline set by the steering committee of the Sindh education department, the admission process will commence on August 7 as per the plan, said the provincial education manager (colleges) Sindh, who is also the chairman of CAP Committee.

The committee decided that the forms of those candidates who have passed there matriculation from boards other than Karachi shall be deposited at two designated branches of the bank in question, so as to save time spent on sorting out these forms and conversion of marks to the Karachi board’s standards. Same policy would also be applicable to O level students.

Prof Mohammad Asghar, Principal SM Arts and Commerce College, who is also secretary of the CAP Committee, briefed the members about the arrangements made regarding data entry and understanding reached with the Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, for verification of the data of candidates.

In regard to issuance of claim forms, which are accepted from students who feel dissatisfied with their placement in the merit lists, the committee decided that claims forms would be received at ten designated colleges, five each for boys and girls, where members of the CAP Committee would be available to guide the students to file claims and remove any grievance then and there.

Allah Dad Memon, EDO (education) Karachi, who is also holding the office of regional education manager (colleges) for Karachi region, Prof Ravi Shankar, Prof Khurshid Haider, Prof Tanveer Anjum, Prof Jalaluddin Chohan, Prof Muddasir Kamal, Prof Mohammad Ikram, Prof Mohammad Asghar, Prof Sabiha Pervaiz, Prof Nuzhat William, Prof Mahjabeen Shahryar, Prof Nishat Parveen, Prof Nuzhat Parveen, Prof Khalida Sami, Prof Suriya Masroor, Prof Mohsina Farooq, Prof Razia Subhan Qureshi and Director Private Schools Mansoob Hussain Siddiqui attended the meeting chaired by the provincial education manager (colleges), Mohammad Ali Shaikh.

Mr Shaikh told Dawn that principals of 119 colleges outside Karachi would go with admissions to first year classes in their respective colleges like previous years. Principals will issue a detail schedule of admissions and commencement of teaching classes as soon as SSC examination results are declared by educational boards concerned, he added.

He said that the independent set up pertaining to regional education manager (colleges) offices at Karachi, and other places of the province were being finalised and names of regional managers would be issued by the education department soon.