Students can no longer cancel admissions, warns education department

MUMBAI: The deputy director of education (DyDe) office that manages admissions for first year junior college (FYJC) has now sent a special message to students saying, “Students who take admission in colleges allotted in the first-come, first-serve (FCFS) round will not be able to cancel their admission.” The message also applies to other students who were allotted seats through previous rounds.

The move is to ensure that every student gets a seat at a time when students are repeatedly cancelling admissions as they are unhappy with the college preference. Till now, the DyDe has conducted four general rounds, one special round, and part one of the FCFS round for 2.31 lakh students who registered for seats through the Centralised Admission Process (CAP). Despite there being a total 3.1 lakh seats for this academic year, students have rejected the seats allotted to them for multiple reasons. Hereon however, students will not be allowed to cancel admissions already taken.

As of now, over 76,211 seats are lying vacant in MMR colleges. “Although we have thrice the number of seats as compared to the number of leftover seats, students want admissions to colleges that do not have enough seats. They want popular colleges and tend to apply for seats in such colleges instead of realising that these are already full,” said a lower-level official at the DyDe office.

Though the officials are not revealing the exact number of leftover students, sources confirmed that over 20,000 to 23,000 are still left without any seat.