The state government had scrapped the online admission system launched last year for junior colleges.
Sanjay Kumar, secretary of school education, said several colleges didn’t participate in the online admission system. "Many colleges didn’t upload their forms. And it’s not even a centralised process. As of now, we are not planning to have it as we didn’t get a good response last year. Unless the deputy director’s office comes up with a better proposal," he said.
The website, launched by then education minister Vasant Purke, had multiple servers to prevent it from crashing. Zip cash was introduced to make the online payment mode easier.
It was the brainchild of deputy director Sheila Tiwari, while former VJTI professor Jitendra Shah mentored the making of the website. But the website crashed on day one of junior college admissions last year with several students trying to log in simultaneously.
While the website did take off after initial glitches, only around 20,000 forms were filled online, a small number compared to the total number of students who seek admissions to junior colleges.
Also, many students preferred to apply both online as well as physically, adding to the confusion. "Even the forms submitted online were full of mistakes. Verification of several documents submitted by reserved category students was not possible. Our work was almost doubled," said a principal.
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