Nagpur: As the wait for state board’s Std XI Centralized Admission Process (CAP) gets longer because of delay in declaration of CBSE Std 10 results, academics in city feel the two processes should never have been linked in the first place.
“Our SSC (Std X) board students got their results on June 17. Academic session for Std XI has already begun in rural areas because they are not covered under CAP. However, in city state board students now have to wait till CBSE declares their results. It seems outrageous that our state education department took this route,” a senior principal said.
TOI Nagpur was the first to report about education department’s decision to wait for CBSE Std X results, before starting CAP. It was the then school education minister Varsha Gaikwad who confirmed the development to TOI, saying officials anticipated legal hurdles if they went ahead with CAP.
Another senior principal alleged that the government seems to have succumbed to the CBSE lobby. “While CBSE schools are few in number, as compared to state board, they are owned by powerful people. It seems to me that there was political pressure involved in delaying CAP,” said the principal.
The other reason that academics in Nagpur are unhappy about this, is the low number of CBSE students shifting to state board. “Till Tuesday, less than two thousand students from CBSE had registered for CAP, out of the total 30,000 applications received. So what we are basically doing here is holding around 28,000 students hostage because 2,000 students did not get their results yet,” said the principal.
A junior college trustee said, “Do you think CBSE would have done the same for us? There was no need to bend over backwards for the central board considering that CAP is only applicable in urban centres. So rural colleges have started and city colleges await their turn.”
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Discovered on: 2022-07-06 22:31:00
Source: Waiting for CBSE to start Std XI admissions is illogical: Experts | Nagpur …
