BHUBANESWAR: Colleges beware! For the eadmission process for Plus2 and Plus3 colleges of the State is set to tell the good from the bad; the genuine from the fake and the performing ones from the nonperforming lot.
With 1,295 junior colleges brought under the Students Academic Management System (SAMS), colleges can no more fake enrolment to make their case. The Higher Education department recently detected 36 colleges which existed only on pen and paper. Those included 16 selffinancing ones.Last week, at least 11 junior colleges were barred from admitting students for this session and seven of them have now submitted undertakings to the department to meet the norms. Of the 1,295 junior colleges under SAMS, 59 are Government colleges while 200 are selffinancing ones. The rest include aided, unaided and those run by schemes under SC and ST Development department.
With growing concerns over quality of the colleges and education imparted by them, the eadmission process has not only aided students in getting admission but will provide a larger picture of theirs in the years to come."Since admission through the online system will provide us information about students' preference about colleges over a period of time, we will get a real time picture of how they are faring," Minister for Higher Education Badri Narayan Patra said. In the past, there were colleges which carried out admissions unscrupulously just to get the enrolment numbers to be able to show them to the Government for grantinaid or recognition. However, the current eprocess will put an end to it. As per the eadmission system, December 31 is the cutoff date for all admissions for an academic year and beyond that day, the SAMS software will freeze the data. This means no admission will be entertained after that date. Similarly, January 15 is the last date for submission of registration number and February 28, for issue of the cards.
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