Mumbai Live: Mumbai: Sunday, August 19, 2018.
Several
educational institutions had used Right To Information (RTI) to access the information
regarding FYJC admissions and increase the transparency in the procedure.
However, out of the 139 applications, only 27 were answered which raised the
suspicions about a number of illegal and non-regulatory elements in the FYJC
admission process and due to which the questions are being avoided and the
information about the procedure is not being disclosed.
Earlier, the
education authorities had converted procedure online in order to reduce the
ruckus in the admission process of FYJC and had assured that the process will simplify
the admission to an extent that the students won’t face problems for securing
admissions. However, the reality hasn’t been so ideal as there have been
regular delays in the declaration of merit lists, instances of the server not
functioning along with technical glitches on the website.
Looking at
this, Siscom Institution used RTI and filed 139 applications seeking answers to
the FYJC admission procedure. However, the institute eventually received
answers to only 27 applications. In response, Siscom’s Vaishali Bafna accused
that the authorities didn’t want to maintain transparency in the procedure and
hence, haven’t still answered majority of RTIs.
“Although the
online admission procedure is to ease the admission seeking process for FYJC,
the students are more confused and have to bear the consequences. Several
illegal and non-regulatory elements are present in the current admission
process due to which there is a delay in receiving answers to the RTIs. If we
do not get the information, then we will take legal action against the authorities,”
said Vaishali Bafna.“