KOLKATA: The window between receiving all undergraduate applications on August 27 and publishing merit lists by August 31 may be of merely four days, but universities and colleges will put up a provisional list in between to weed out errors as well as fake applications.
Presidency University will publish a provisional general merit list on August 30 and ask applicants for online reporting on August 31 and September 1 to cross-check their credentials. Earlier, the general provisional merit list was to be published on August 27. “We will try our best to publish a merit list, which is free of all errors. All of us are working together in that direction,” said a head of the department who is also a member of the admission committee.
Lady Brabourne College will publish a subject-wise provisional merit list on August 29. Applicants can report discrepancies, if any, on August 29 and 30. A revised comprehensive merit list will be published on August 31. Some dates have been changed at Scottish Church College, too. “A provisional merit for Phase 1 will be published on August 29 and the final merit list on August 31. The first leg of admission will begin on September 1,” said Scottish Church principal Madhumanjari Mandal.
The change of application deadline—from August 20 to August 27—has apparently turned the arrangements at Ashutosh College upside down as the authorities there had finished conducting online reporting and preparing an initial merit list before August 20. “But the extension of deadline for application till August 27 changed everything. All the ranks on the merit list will change again. Those who appeared for online reporting will again have to do so on August 28, August 29, and August 30. We will have to go through the same procedure all over again. We will also have to ensure that the merit list is free of errors and does not contain any fake application,” said a member of the admission committee.
From conducting online reporting and scrutinizing applications to weeding out fake applications and putting up names of eligible candidates, college authorities will have their hands full for the next four days till the last date for publication of merit list on August 31.
According to the guidelines by the education department, colleges and universities are supposed to publish merit lists by August 31 and wrap up admissions by September 30 so that classes for new semester can start from October. Many principals have, however, expressed concern over shortening of the gap between receiving applications and publishing merit lists. Given the time shortage, in many colleges, the staff will work this Saturday, despite it being a holiday.
