PESHAWAR, Feb 4: City colleges failed to provide admission to thousands of candidates to the first and third years in both arts and science groups in the academic session 2001-02 on account of limited number of seats.
According to statistics available with the provincial Education Department here on Monday, a total of 13,637 admission forms were submitted in the seven colleges for both boys and girls in Peshawar, but only 3,845 could get admissions while the rest were left to look for other options.
Government Superior Science College, Peshawar, received 1,247 applications seeking admissions to the first year science. However, only 453 students could secure admissions. In humanities group, 877 boys applied, out of which only 240 were given admissions.
For the third-year science group, 118 students were given admissions against 423 applications. Likewise, 444 boys applied for arts group in which 120 students got admissions.
Government College, Peshawar, received 2,100 applications for the first year science, out of which 400 were accommodated according to the merit. In arts group 250 students were given admissions against 1300 applications received.
For admissions to third year class, the college gave admissions to 118 students in science and 120 in arts against 423 and 444 applications it received, respectively.
Government College, Badabher and the recently established Government College, Matra, could accommodate only 140 students in science faculty and 270 in humanities group.
Frontier College for Girls, Peshawar, received 2,089 admission forms for both faculties, but only 722 girls were given admissions. For the third year class the college received 1,169 applications and has given admissions to 440 students in both the faculties.
City Girls College, Peshawar, received 1,024 applications for the third year science and arts classes but only 298 students were given admissions. For third year science and arts faculty the college gave admissions to only 137 students against 425 applications.
Government Girls College, Gulshan Rehman, Peshawar, received 257 applications, but only 37 students (in science) and 60 (in arts) were given admissions in the first year. The college does not provide education to degree level.
The sources informed that the Education Department had several times identified venues for establishing new colleges, but due to non-availability of funds no new college could be established, except the one in Mathra on Warsak Road, Peshawar. The department had recently purchased 400 kanal of land at Larama in district Peshawar, but setting up college on that property seemed to be a Herculean task due to funds scarcity, a sources said.
He said the government had given instructions to the Education Department to identify only those buildings which had been vacated in the wake of downsizing in many government departments.
A senior official of the Education Department said: “We are trying to solve admission problem and that is why the department has started second shift in the colleges on self-finance scheme basis.” However, he admitted that the scheme is for middle and high class as boys belong to poor family cannot afford its fee.
Suggesting construction of at least three more colleges for boys and two colleges for girls in the city, he said Hayatabad locality needed one college each for boys and girls, but the government did not have required funds to take up the projects.