FYJC admission deadline likely to be pushed back

Mumbai: With 30,000 aspirants left to register online for  First Year Junior College’s (FYJC) admissions after Thursday, the last day to apply is likely to be extended, according to the education department officers.

The number of days of the extension however will depend on the site’s performance on Thursday and is expected to be around three to four days in case the portal failed to work properly even today.

The FYJC online admission portal was shut on Wednesday for maintenance after crashing on Tuesday due to heavy site traffic. So the students had to wait till Thursday to fill their forms online.

By Wednesday, 67,000 students had filled this online form and 1.75 lakh were still remaining. However, after the restoration of the portal on Thursday, only around 30,000 aspirants are left.

Talking to The Asian Age, deputy director of education for Mumbai region, B.B. Chavan, said, “Around2,30,000 students have filled up the part 1 of their form and one lakh have filled the part 2 of the form on Thursday.”

Earlier, a senior official from the education department said, “Extra three to four days would be given to the students to fill their forms if the admission portal failed to work properly on Thursday.”