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DESPITE TWO MERIT LISTS BEING DECLARED, A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ARE STILL WAITING FOR THEIR NAMES TO FEATURE IN THE THIRD AND FINAL FYJC LIST By Yatin Ingle
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hile 51,176 students have been able to secure seats in the second round of the First Year Junior College (FYJC) merit list through the online admission process, 9,205 students are waiting for their names to appear in the third and final list which will be declared on July 5, 2013. Even after opting for their preferred colleges and the vacant seats at the end of admission rounds being surrendered to the education department, several students are still without seats and are hoping to make it to the final list. After the State School Education Department declared
the first merit list, only 15,000 seats were left for the remaining 25,231 applicants. In all, 65,999 students who were on the first merit list did not take admissions. Seats belonging to management, in-house and minority quotas which totaled 11,397 were also included in the admission process. The second merit list had 25,000 applicants for 77,000 seats in which the names of only 16,023 students appeared. 9,205 students are
still waiting to see their names in the final merit list. Talking to the ADC, Smita Sawant, an applicant said, “My name has not appeared in either of the two merit lists that have been declared. The only option I have is to wait for the final list and see if my name features on it. I think is its all about luck in this online admission process.” As per the rules of the FYJC online admission process, a list consisting of 300 colleges was given by the state board to applicants for the streams of Arts, Commerce and Science. Based on this list, the applicant had to list 35 preferred colleges of which 15 should be from the Mumbai Continued on pg 8 «
A Munde blow for Gopinath By Suyash Padate
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enior BJP leader Gopinath Munde, who has already landed himself in trouble because of the Election Commission’s (EC) scrutiny into his 2009 poll campaign expenses, received a major blow yesterday when his nephew Dhananjay Munde formally defected to the NCP after resigning from the membership of legislative council. Dhananjay has shown his willingness to enter the fray against his uncle and his daughter, Pankaja Palve, in their bastion during the forthcoming elections. Dhananjay became an MLC on the BJP’s candidature with the recommenda-
Nephew Dhananjay Munde
Uncle Gopinath Munde
tion of Gopinath Munde. working against Gopinath However over the last year, Munde, he resisted from he turned into his uncle’s crossing over to the NCP till prime detractor. As the rift now, only because his doing widened between two lead- so would lead to the possiers, Dhananjay decided to bility of him losing his accept the leadership of membership of the legislaNCP leader and Deputy tive council. Last evening, an upset Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Though Dhananjay had indicated that he would be Continued on pg 12 «
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