23 BCom colleges with vacant seats listed by Gujarat University

AHMEDABAD: A day after Gujarat University (GU) announced the completion of admissions in commerce colleges in the city, GU officials declared a list of 23 colleges which have vacant seats. Students who have failed to get admissions have been asked to go to these colleges and take admission on the basis of merit.

Ironically, the list of 23 colleges does not include any top college despite report which the monitoring committee has submitted to the GU stating that most top colleges have vacant seats. Academicians said this means that the entire effort put in by the monitoring committee was just an exercise in futile.

Acting vice-chancellor Mukul Shah said that there is no seat vacant in top colleges. However, he said he would seek more information to know if there are any vacant seats.

Meanwhile, academicians have claimed that the top colleges have deliberately kept the seats reserved to oblige political leaders, student leaders and other influential people. These seats have not been declared vacant in order to facilitate back door entry for the students favored by the college managements. "At the beginning of admissions, the GU made a lot of noise, asking college managements not to enroll students outside the merit list. However, it was all eyewash. The GU doesn't have any say on the way admissions are conducted," said an academician.