HSC admission confusion

On principle, if the private colleges want to enroll students on a selection basis, probably to maintain their own standards, then they should be allowed to do so. The government colleges should also have similar latitude. Higher grades would give a candidate an advantage on the points table over others -- that is a given thing, though. If the educational institutions want to follow their own procedures, what's the problem? Why should it be a 'punishable offence' if some colleges hold admission tests?

On a general plane, statistics show that there are around 4.5 lakh seats for the first year HSC classes while only 3.31 lakh students passed the secondary examinations this year to be qualified for those berths. It means that rush to better institutions in the cities will leave most colleges in the Mufassil areas without enough students to teach. We are looking at an idle capacity we can hardly afford.

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For the longer term, we urge the education ministry to hold meetings with the representatives of the colleges in order that they can arrive at a realistic and rational solution to admission problems that seem to be worsening by the year. On the immediate term, however, the students and parents should be relieved of the anxiety they have been experiencing ever since the confusion over the admission procedure arose.