Principals’ forum opposes NU’s online admissions process

Nagpur: The Nagpur University Principals’ Forum has opposed the varsity’s decision to conduct online admissions process for the first year. The forum office bearers plan to hand over a representation to vice chancellor Subhash Chaudhari this week voicing their concerns on the process.
According to them, not only colleges but even students are made to suffer in the online process, which they termed as “very complicated”. “Even as students were asked to pay Rs20 for the online process, the actual expenditure is above Rs100 for uploading documents and other expenses. Moreover, those from rural areas lacking access to the online systems suffer the most,” the forum’s office bearers said.
They added that though a majority of students possessed mobile phones, many of them didn’t have bank accounts and, therefore, they lacked internet banking or ATM card facility and had to depend on others to pay fees. “The university is charging Rs50 as e-charge from all its enrolled students. However, that fund has hardly been used since the last many years. This accumulated fund over the years is in crores. There’s no point in charging Rs20 from students. Moreover, many students take help of internet cafés to upload their documents and have to spend unnecessarily in the process,” they said.
Warning NU administration about the collapse of the academic calendar, the forum members demanded extension of the last date of registration, which is August 18.
Many aspirants too have demanded extension of this deadline, stating that they were yet to get mark sheets from their colleges. “In NU’s online form, there’s a column of the mark-sheet number. Without filling it up, the system doesn’t accept your form. Either they should extend the deadline or remove the mark-sheet number column from the form. They’ve already made the entire procedure very complicated,” students told TOI.
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#NU ADMISSIONS SCHEDULE
* Sale of prospectus – Already started
* Registration on website – Till August 18
* Application forms submission in colleges – August 20
* Display of merit list & waiting list – August 24
* Admission finalisation from merit list – August 25-28
* Admission finalisation from waiting list – August 30-31
* Counselling & spot admissions – Against vacant seats