Several eligible candidates have lost the chance to get a merit seat for an undergraduate programme under the Centralised Allotment Process (CAP) of the Mahatma Gandhi University after the publication of the second allotment list on Sunday.
The Hindu has reliably learnt that these students lost the opportunity as the University authorities failed to provide the ‘discontinued’ option using which the managements could update the vacant seats online before publishing the second allotment list.
Many seats in the general category remained vacant after candidates got admission for professional courses and undergraduate programmes offered by other universities in Kerala. The inordinate delay in the publication of the second allotment list also prompted many aspirants to opt for a course in other universities.
The admission cell had last year provided a discontinued option online where the college authorities could update the number of vacant seats before publishing the second allotment list. This had proved beneficial as the university could fill up the vacant seats by permitting the students to exercise the higher option in the second allotment. With the seats remaining vacant, worthy students would go out of the admission process as the university does not have any plans to conduct a third allotment.
Interestingly, the benefit of this serious lapse would be candidates applying for admission under the supplementary allotment list. Candidates who could not apply online till now and those not considered under the first and second allotment for making errors in the application are considered for the supplementary allotment.
Those students who had already got admission in a college, but failed to get their choice of course and college need to register again online for being considered under the supplementary allotment. But it will not be an easy ride as managements will collect the fee for the first term from them before issuing the relieving order.
A principal of an unaided college in Ernakulam informed the University officials that majority of the seats in his institution were remaining vacant as candidates left for other courses and colleges outside before the second allotment.
