College admission on for 2 more days

Although the deadline for admission to colleges was supposed to end yesterday, the government has decided to allow the institution authorities to enrol students to class XI today and tomorrow considering a huge number of students who failed to get admitted.

"There is no bar for the colleges to enrol students on Friday and Saturday," Prof Abu Bakar Siddique, chairman of Inter-education Board Coordination Subcommittee, told reporters at his office yesterday.

He also said the student, whose names were on the first merit list, can be admitted in these two days.

The government for the first time this year initiated online admission to all colleges. It also decided that the boards would publish a list of the students, specifying the colleges where they are to be enrolled.

But due to a lack of preparation on the government's part, the entire system turned out to be a nightmare for more than 11 lakh applicants and their parents.

Finally, the ministry Monday published the first merit list with names of over 10.93 lakh students for admission.

In the first list, the ministry failed to select any college for over 62,000 students.