Thousands of fresh matriculates may be deprived of admission: date extended up to August 30

Thousands of fresh matriculates might be deprived of admissions to Class XI in the city's public sector colleges due to `vague' and `ambiguous' admission procedure announced by the committee set up under Centralised Admission Policy (CAP), it emerged on Monday.
Sources said admission committee has completely failed to provide proper guidance for filling up placement forms which are available at different branches of a bank. The process of admission to first-year classes in the city's 159 public sector colleges and higher secondary schools was still continuing as the admission committee has now extended the deadline for admissions till August 30.
According to sources, in all 1,02,950 fresh matriculates will be accommodated in the city's 132 government colleges (80 male and 65 female) and 26 higher secondary schools, this year. However, the number of forms submitted till filing of this report was hardly 30,000 plus. Students, who obtained the placement forms from the designated branches of Sindh Bank, said that they have been facing difficulties in filling them as they are complicated. "I got a placement form from a bank but I do not know how to fill it up," another aspirant expressed his helplessness, saying that the admission committee should have set up facilitation centers for the students.
However, a member of the admission committee said that there was no need for setting up facilitation centers as the policy was initially introduced in 2000 and teachers and family members of students were now fully aware about the admission policy procedure.
Meanwhile, Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association's (SPLA) Karachi chapter's President, Professor Iftikhar Azmi, criticised Sindh education department and office of the Director General (Colleges) for not issuing a transparent admission policy. Criticising the admission policy, President of Islami Jamiat Talaba's (IJT) colleges committee, South, Waseem Sajjad, said that the government had announced two different procedures for submitting placement forms - online and manual. He apprehended that a number of seats available in the public sector colleges might remain vacant due to the flawed admission policy.