Over 57,000 UG seats up for grabs at MGU

32,264 seats to be filled through Centralised Allotment Process

May 07, 2019 01:45 am | Updated 01:45 am IST - KOCHI

KERALA_KOCHI_19/04/2013: Students at the library of School of Letters on the Mahatma Gandhi University campus in Kottayam. Photo: K_K_Mustafah

KERALA_KOCHI_19/04/2013: Students at the library of School of Letters on the Mahatma Gandhi University campus in Kottayam. Photo: K_K_Mustafah

Over 57,000 seats are available for undergraduate programmes in affiliated colleges of Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) in the new academic year.

Of the total 57,009 seats, 32,264 will be filled through the Centralised Allotment Process (CAP) conducted by the varsity. As many as 22,852 seats are under the management quota, while 1, 893 seats figure under the community category.

Over 11,700 seats are available under CAP for the popular B.Com programmes. According to official figures, the intake for some B.Com programmes under CAP is as follows: B.Com Model I Computer Applications (1,315); B.Com Model I Finance and Taxation (1,302); B.Com Model I Finance and Taxation (Self-financing -1,499); B.Com Model II Computer Applications (3,151); B.Com Model II Finance and Taxation (2,084); B.Com Model II Marketing (398); B.Com Model II Travel and Tourism (382); B.Com Model III Office Management and Secretarial Practice (158); B.Com Model III Taxation (131); B. Com Model III Computer Applications (380).

The seats under the management quota for the most preferred B.Com Model II Computer Applications and B.Com Model II Finance and Taxation are 3,006 and 2,052 respectively.

The intake under CAP for BA English Language and Literature Model I is 1,333, while the corresponding figure for BA Economics Model I is 1,762. The seats available under CAP for other popular courses are: B. Sc Chemistry Model 1 (1,009); B.Sc Physics Model (1,422); B.Sc Zoology Model 1 (753), and B.Sc Botany Model 1 (661).

According to university guidelines, 100% seats in government colleges, except those coming under the sports/cultural/physical disability quota, will be filled through CAP. Seventy per cent seats in aided colleges and 50% seats in unaided colleges will also be available under the single-window system. Community merit quota and management quota seats will be filled by the managements concerned.

In aided colleges, open quota seats and those earmarked for SC/ST candidates will be filled through the online process.

Fifty per cent of the total number of seats, including those reserved for SC/ST and SEBC, will be filled through CAP in unaided colleges and for unaided programmes conducted by aided colleges. Ninety per cent of seats, including those reserved for SC/ST and SEBC in constituent colleges owned and run by the university, will be filled through CAP.

The varsity will announce the schedule of CAP after the results of Plus Two examinations conducted by the State Higher Secondary Department are published.

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