Over 28,000 vacant seats are available in Nagpur City, even after the admission process of Std XI has reached the final stage. Even after the admission process of Std XI has reached the final stage in Nagpur city, the seats are still vacant holding steady above the 28,000 figures.
While some of the seats may be filled after the completion of the admission process, the remaining seats will still be vacant for an average of nearly 18,000 figures.
All the admission process in Nagpur is done via the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) that was started over a decade and half a year by a retired senior educational official, Mahesh Karajgaonkar.
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When asked about the vacant seats, he said that the vacancy gap has increased due to the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic.
Most of the outstation students take admissions in the Nagpur colleges because of the vibrant coaching class culture. They'd stay in PGs or hostels and enroll in local classes and colleges. However, it is missing this year due to the COVID-19 situation, Mahesh said.
Ravindra Fadnavis, Sarkaryavah, Maharashtra Rajya Sikshan Sanshta Mahamandal said that the vacancy gap has increased because of the rampant expansion of colleges. Education departments granted permissions to increase the science seats in existing colleges without giving a thought to whether they have got the requisite infrastructure.
Fadnavis added that there's a case ongoing at the high court related to the admissions in Std XI and the numbers have been cited on the petition which show the demand-supply disparity.
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The General Secretary of Vidarbha Junior College Teacher Association (VJUCTA), Ashok Gavhankar said that these vacant seats reflect the rural migration. After a tie-up between the coaching institutes and the colleges, the students are being herded towards the colleges which are located outside the city limits. As the admissions in rural colleges do not take place under CAP, students easily acquire a seat.
Following this, Fadnavis said that he fails to understand why the parents are enrolling their children in private unaided colleges by paying a hefty sum when free education is available at the city's colleges.
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