Snag disrupts online admission to jr colleges in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Several students spent anxious moments on Tuesday afternoon after they couldn’t access the junior college admission website. “Officials from some of the guidance centres as well as schools contacted us and told us that students were not able access the website properly. We immediately alerted our technicians and the problem was rectified in some time,” said an official from the office of the deputy director of education.He added that there have been fewer complaints about the admission process this year.
Students had to wait for a long time at guidance centres to fill up their option forms after the system blinked. One such student, Ruchi Dedhia, told TOI, “An official was helping us fill our forms when the system stopped working. I hadn’t even finished listing all my options for colleges when the snag occurred. It was scary.”
Dedhia, who was at a guidance centre in south Mumbai, was later assured that she can refill her option form.
“The server was down for sometime in the afternoon and some students’ forms were not being accepted. However, there was nothing major at our school,” principal of Khar’ Kamla High School Rekha Shahani said. Pointing out that most students started filling their online option forms only on Monday after they received their original marksheets, Shahani said, “Many had come on Tuesday to fill the form.”
Principal of Holy Family School in Andheri (E) Fr Francis Swamy said, “Many students came on Tuesday. This affected the server and our work for sometime. We have now asked our students to come in batches to avoid such issues and delays.”