KARACHI, Oct 24: About 3000 claims for admission to first-year classes in government-run city colleges were rejected by the Centralized Admission Policy (CAP) committee, according to the sources.

The sources say that the committee, functioning at the PECHS College for Women, formally stopped public dealing from October 21. Parents are still reporting to the committee office at the PECHS College, where a couple of district education officials of the college side and some other staff are attending to the visitors after 7 pm.

Hundreds of claim forms are left with the committee, but very few students or their parents report daily for placement orders.

It is assumed that those who are not turning up for new placement orders have already finalized their admissions as per the initial placement/merit list issued by the admission committee, according to a source .

The CAP committee issued placement lists of about 70000 male and female students for admission to different faculties in the city colleges. It had received about 13000 applications through its two complaint centres for review from applicants, out of which 10000 cases, mostly those of female students, were settled and revised admission letters were issued.

After the issuance of the first placement list, students started claiming that they were wrongly placed at colleges not in accordance with the choices they mentioned in the admission forms, and not in line with their merit based on the marks they obtained in matriculation examinations.

A senior teacher involved in the admission process said that from October 26 the venue at the PECHS College would be closed down and the district office education (colleges) would directly look into the cases pertaining to admissions, if any. The CAP source said that only those candidates who submitted their application forms through banks and could not get admission in government colleges for delay in the delivery of revised marks-sheets from the educational board, or for CAP computer errors, because of being away from the city, are likely to be entertained with regard to admission,

Meanwhile, 11 monitoring teams have been formed to find out whether admissions to colleges were made in line with the CAP placement list or not. The teams would soon start visiting the colleges and report to the high-ups, said a source in the city government education department.