KOLKATA: Given the deluge of applications for undergraduate course, Jadavpur University had requested the higher education department for an extension of date for the publication of their merit lists and they were allowed to do so. Accordingly, the university will be publish its merit lists on September 7.
This year, the higher education department has framed a timeline for undergraduate admissions. It had been decided that August 20 would be the last date of form submission and merit lists would have to be published by August 31. Due to late distribution of revised mark sheets, the higher education department had extended the last date for application by a week to August 27.
JU, which has 1,066 seats in the science and arts faculties, received 55,000 forms. Vice-chancellor Suranjan Das said, “We have received a huge number of forms and the time allowed to us to come up with a merit list was very short. So, we sought an extension from the higher education department and they allowed us to.”
“The sorting and screening process takes some time. So, it is very difficult to publish a merit list within four days as there are several layers of the sorting process and even a manual process has to be adopted to make sure that it is flawless.” said a JU professor. This year, a huge number of forms have been submitted at all leading institutions, several of which are yet to publish their merit list. So, students are eagerly waiting for the JU list on September 7.
