KOLKATA: With three days to go before undergraduate applications stop on August 5, colleges and universities have received a “satisfactory number” of forms for reserved-category seats. The applications had been good in humanities and commerce but not too high for science, a professor said.
According to the rule, 45% seats at colleges and universities are reserved for students belonging to SC, ST, OBC A and OBC B categories. The cut-off for these categories are usually slightly lower than that for general category seats. But the last few years, filling up these reserved-category seats has been a concern area as at the end of the admission process, several reserved berths at various institutes were found to be vacant, By the time some of the institutes managed to dereserve the seats and open them up for general category candidates, the admission deadline got over, leading to those berths remaining vacant for the rest of the academic session.
