KOHAT, Aug 10: A number of girl students were denied admissions to government colleges in the city because of shortage of seats. It is a very disappointing situation for the students because they cannot afford to join private colleges either.

The district government has been demanding that the provincial government increase the number of seats in the first and third years in the three girls colleges, but the people at the helm of affairs are yet to address their grievances.

The situation got so bad that an opposition MPA and the parents had to move the court to disallow admissions to outsiders so that more local students could get into these colleges. But even then many students could not get admissions due to shortage of seats.

In all 426 students were denied admission to the first year in the Government Girls College this year. The college principal said that the government in its attempt to mitigate the situation introduced a self-finance scheme under which 42 students had been accommodated.

The college had the capacity to accommodate 150 students only, both in the science and arts faculties. Now the total strength of students in the first year would be 192. Similarly instead of increasing regular seats the government had decided to give admission to 27 students on self-finance scheme in the third year.

The plea taken by the college was that 90 per cent of the aspirants had C and D grades in the matric examination and by giving admission to them the college could not perform well in the FA/FSc examinations. In the Federal Cantonment Girls College 58 students could not get admissions.