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FYJC FIRST LIST SNUBS PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
DESPATCH & COURIER
By Yatin Ingle
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he first merit list for the First Year Junior College (FYJC) saw many physically challenged students getting colleges far away from their residences. This is especially callous when one considers that the online admission forms had to be submitted with a preference of 35 colleges from the Mumbai Metropolitan Regions (MMR). This has left physically challenged students with no option but to book admissions in colleges for which they will have to travel for hours. According to the FYJC online admission process, 35 preferences of colleges has to be
submitted, of these 15 colleges should be from wards in one’s own zone, and another 15 from anywhere in the city and suburbs. Besides these five junior colleges attached to schools in one’s own ward and the adjacent one, the area of which is itself decided by the Board. These admission forms also carried categories for physically challenged students which were to be filled by the concerned student. Physically challenged Rovin Mehta says, “I had listed my preference for colleges which are nearer to my house. Even the colleges which I had preferred from the MMR regions were nearer; but I have gotten a college for which I will have to travel for two hours. I re-
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side in Borivli and have got a college in Mulund. Still, I am optimistic. There are two lists to be declared.” “Why can’t the government allot the needy students the nearby colleges?” asks Ashok Singh, a parent. The declaration of the MMR regions has been completed were as two lists of the zone and wards will be declared on June 30 and July 5 respectively. N.B. Chavan, Deputy Director School Education, said, “The allotment of the colleges has been done on the basis of the applicant’s preference. There are two more lists to be declared and students will have to wait for the same.”