Siliguri, May 26: North Bengal University will introduce online admissions to under-graduate courses in
all 54 colleges affiliated to it from the next academic session,
authorities said today.
Somnath Ghosh, the
vice-chancellor of NBU, said the Bengal higher education department was
introducing the system of online admissions in all state-aided
varsities from the 2014-2015 academic year.
The VC said he
would attend a meeting convened by the higher education department with
the state varsities in Calcutta tomorrow to work out the modalities of
the online admission process.
“The NBU has been
given Rs 16 lakh by the higher education department for starting the
online admission systems. We have already held two meetings in the past
two months with college principals and teachers-in-charge of the 54
affiliated colleges in this regard. Whether colleges will conduct the
online admission individually or it will be done in a centralised way by
the varsities will be decided at tomorrow’s meeting,” said Ghosh.
He added that
Webel, the nodal agency for information and technology of the state
government, would be assisting the varsities to implement the online
admission system. So far, students have been collecting admission forms
manually from colleges and the same would be submitted to the
institutions once they are filled up.
NBU officials said
the online admission system would bring about transparency and prevent
back door entry of the applicants to colleges because of pressure from
student unions.
“There is lot of
chaos during the admission process in every college. Students’ unions
exert pressure on the college authorities for back door admissions and
merit takes a back seat. However, in the online admission system,
details of the applicants have to be published on college websites and
this will ensure the admission of only meritorious students,” said an
NBU official.(TT)