City's reservation pool hurting meritorious students

Shruti Setia / TNN / Jun 29, 2006, 02:16 IST

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UT administration reservation policy for admission to colleges smacks of bias and arbitrary attitude.

City's reservation pool hurting meritorious students

CHANDIGARH: Although UT administration dreams of making the city an educational hub by drawing in the best of talent from various quarters, it's reservation policy for admission to colleges smacks of bias and arbitrary attitude.
By reserving 85% of the total sanctioned intake in city colleges for students who pass their qualifying examination from schools recognised by UT administration (UT pool), it seriously jeopardises chances of good students from Punjab and Haryana to make it to colleges here.
This policy makes it difficult for students of even Panchkula and Mohali to get into good colleges in Chandigarh, what to talk of those coming from Punjab and Haryana, of which the city is, ironically, the capital.
To enter the UT pool, many students from Panchkula and Mohali take admissions to city schools in class XI, which affects XI class admissions in the former. Some of the students say that they had to leave schools nearer to their houses and come to Chandigarh only to fulfil this condition.

Even college principals are not happy with the reservation policy. Earlier, some of them had even written to the administration to reduce quota for Chandigarh students.
AC Vaid, principal GGDSD College says,"There are already so many reservations and this 85% for UT students sometimes thwarts chances of some student whose percentage is higher."
A glance at the cut offs for various colleges reveals that there is a difference of four to five per cent in the UT pool and general pool, merit being lower for the former. S Marriya, principal DAV College is also of the same opinion.
He says that many times the college has to refuse admission to a good student, and admit another with a lower percentage because of the reservation.
Interestingly, there is no such reservation in colleges of Punjab and Haryana. Students coming from these states say that being the capital, policies of Chandigarh administration should facilitate, rather then work against them.

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