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Boys are clearly at the receiving end as far as admission to BCom course is concerned due to less number of seats available for them as compared to girls in city colleges.
There are around 4,000 seats available, out of which 2,140 are in 11 colleges. Five are girls colleges whereas five are co-educational and only one is a boys college. This creates a huge difference of around 700 in the number of seats available for boys and girls.
''Nearly 700 male students who had got good ranks have been adversely affected. There are cases where boys with 1700 or 1800 rank, could not get admission whereas a girl with a rank up to 2500 easily did so,'' K Tankeshwar, director of PU computer centre who coordinated the online BCom counselling this time, told TOI.
This year, Panjab University is conducting online counselling for admitting students in 26 colleges in Punjab and Chandigarh. It has made three centres, Chandigarh, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana. The admission process had started on July 1 and counselling at Ludhiana centre is scheduled on Friday.
BCom is one of the most sought-after courses in city colleges and students from Delhi, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar had applied for admissions this year. ''There should be a balance between the seats available for boys and girls. Due to this gap, many boys are either forced to leave Chandigarh or to change their stream,'' said a senior PU official. PU had received nearly 10,000 applications; more than double the available seats.
''I wanted to pursue BCom but dropped the idea due to less number of seats available. I did not want to leave Chandigarh, so took admission in Arts College in Sector 10,'' said Sidhharth Sharma.
''It is really strange that a deserving student fails to get admission whereas another student with a lower rank manages to get admission because she is a girl. We want PU to reserve some seats for male students to create a balance in the admission process,'' said Anmol Sharma, a student of Class XI (commerce) at a private school in Chandigarh.
Saurabh Sharma, a student of Class XII (commerce) at Gian Jyoti Public School in Mohali, said thousands of students apply for admission every year. This discrimination is not legitimate and PU should do something about it.
There are around 4,000 seats available, out of which 2,140 are in 11 colleges. Five are girls colleges whereas five are co-educational and only one is a boys college. This creates a huge difference of around 700 in the number of seats available for boys and girls.
''Nearly 700 male students who had got good ranks have been adversely affected. There are cases where boys with 1700 or 1800 rank, could not get admission whereas a girl with a rank up to 2500 easily did so,'' K Tankeshwar, director of PU computer centre who coordinated the online BCom counselling this time, told TOI.
This year, Panjab University is conducting online counselling for admitting students in 26 colleges in Punjab and Chandigarh. It has made three centres, Chandigarh, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana. The admission process had started on July 1 and counselling at Ludhiana centre is scheduled on Friday.
BCom is one of the most sought-after courses in city colleges and students from Delhi, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar had applied for admissions this year. ''There should be a balance between the seats available for boys and girls. Due to this gap, many boys are either forced to leave Chandigarh or to change their stream,'' said a senior PU official. PU had received nearly 10,000 applications; more than double the available seats.
''I wanted to pursue BCom but dropped the idea due to less number of seats available. I did not want to leave Chandigarh, so took admission in Arts College in Sector 10,'' said Sidhharth Sharma.
''It is really strange that a deserving student fails to get admission whereas another student with a lower rank manages to get admission because she is a girl. We want PU to reserve some seats for male students to create a balance in the admission process,'' said Anmol Sharma, a student of Class XI (commerce) at a private school in Chandigarh.
Saurabh Sharma, a student of Class XII (commerce) at Gian Jyoti Public School in Mohali, said thousands of students apply for admission every year. This discrimination is not legitimate and PU should do something about it.
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