The Council of Principals of Colleges in Kerala (CPCK) has raised concerns at the single window system being followed by Calicut University (CU) for its undergraduate admissions. Council president M. Usman said that the system was against the community quota as it was putting candidates and their parents into difficulties.
Dr. Usman pointed out that a large number of candidates seeking admission under community quota were being subjected to lots of difficulties owing to lack of scientific methods in the university’s single window admission system.
The system has asked the students to report to the college of their choice for community quota admission before 12 p.m. on Friday. “This caused confusion and worries. How can a student who has given options in 20 colleges go to those colleges and report their willingness to join in the community quota? It’s highly impractical,” Dr. Usman said.
He said that only those who had marked options in the community quota in a college were being considered for admission to that college. “The unscientific single window system has made the students run frantically for admission from campus to campus,” he said in a statement issued here on Friday.
The university has asked the colleges to publish a new ranklist for community quota by evening by including those students who report at the college before 12 noon on Friday. Dr. Usman, Principal of the Amal College of Advanced Studies, Nilambur, said making students to report at different colleges for inclusion on the community ranklist would defeat the purpose of single window system.
The university rules indicate that students will not have to apply separately for community quota. But the single window system has specified that those who do not indicate their desire for community reservation will not get the community seats. Many students who did not get admission under general category in the first three allotments were denied admission under community quota on Friday because they did not specify for reservation in the single window application. The CPCK has asked the university to hand over the complete list of students eligible for admission to community quota to respective colleges.
