No reservation in minority colleges, Maharashtra govt clarifies

MUMBAI: Even as Maharashtra govt issued a govt resolution (GR) on Monday clarifying that SC, ST, and OBC reservations will not apply to minority colleges, officials are still allotting seats under the altered seat matrix in minority colleges. Those in the know have raised serious doubts about whether the first FYJC merit list will be released on Thursday or if a new date will be announced.

It is believed that after Monday's GR, several minority colleges called in-house aspirants on Tuesday, asked them to fill their forms again and submit the same with the fresh date of Tuesday, and asked their parents to pay fees on Friday.

SSC exams were held early this year, and the results came sooner than expected - on May 13. But for lakhs of Class 10 students in Maharashtra, that headstart dissolved into a slow wait with govt first trying new centralised admission systems and then wanting to impose new reservations in minority institutes.

"We are trying to see if we can declare the first merit list on Thursday... We will consolidate all the information on Wednesday and take a final call on whether the first merit list can be declared on Thursday or if we need to give students more time," said a senior official from the FYJC admissions cell.