It’s admission boom time in the steel city

Jamshedpur, Aug. 22: Admission fever has gripped Ranchi University’s constituent colleges. Some colleges have witnessed record number of admissions while others have been barred from taking in students.

The university has directed B.V. Parikh Janata College and Abdul Bari Memorial College not to take admissions to its honours degree courses following a court order. The directive was given when it was found that some colleges taught subjects that were not affiliated to the university.

In Graduate School College for Women, about 1,100 students have taken admission to B.A Part-I, the highest ever in the history of the college.

“We have stopped selling admission forms as we are not in a position to accommodate students more than 1,100 in the arts (Part-I) stream with the existing infrastructure,'' said Shukla Mohanty, principal of Graduate School College for Women.

Mohanty attributed two reasons for this year’s rush in B. A Part-I admission.

“Several ICSE and CBSE students from the city who were refused admission to colleges in New Delhi have taken admission here. The admission ban on Abdul Bari Memorial College has also redirected students to Graduate College,” she said.

This year’s improved pass percentage at the intermediate examinations has also boosted college admissions. The city intermediate colleges recorded 85 per cent pass this year in intermediate as compared to 70 per cent last year. The situation is similar in Jamshedpur Workers’ College, which recently stopped admission to its commerce and arts streams.

Sources in the college said about 500 students have taken admission to the B. Com Part-I and 300 to the B-A Part-I, as compared to 300 and 200 students last year in these streams respectively.

Abdul Bari Memorial College principal R.K. Das said in spite of a good arts (Hons) faculty, especially in geography, political science, history and sociology, a university directive debarred them from taking fresh admissions.

Ranchi University has directed the college to stop taking admission to the honours bachelor degree courses because it does not have permanent affiliation from the state government.

“This is one of the reasons why girl students from Telco, Baridih and Golmuri preferred taking admission to Graduate School College for Women or Jamshedpur Women’s College,” Das said. He attributed another reason for the admission rush. “The students of K.S. College in Seraikela-Kharswan district also migrated to city colleges this year as admission in that college has been banned for non-affiliation of several departments,” he added.

August 30 is the last date of admission to city colleges.

However, several colleges, including Graduate School College for Women, Jamshedpur Workers’ College and Jamshedpur Cooperative College have stopped taking admission to avoid overcrowding of students. Some of the university-affiliated colleges that witnessed fewer admissions complained that the university should earmark a number of seats in each stream of three-year degree course.

Unlike intermediate, here a maximum of 512 seats has been earmarked for admission, there is no seat limit for the bachelors’ degree course.