Management quota should be scrapped: Forum

government’s decision to implement the centralisation scheme from the forthcoming academic year was announced in the Legislative Assembly by Joshi last week. The scheme, which aims to streamline the admissions, will require candidates who have passed the SSC examination to fill in a standardised form, indicating colleges of their choice in order of preference. Admission will be granted on the basis ofmerit and prevailing caste reservations. In a press statement, Gaglani has also said: “It appears that the state has buckled under pressure from the management lobby and allowed this quota of five per cent which is being grossly misused either by sale of such seats or by distributing them among influential persons.”

College principals, however, are reluctant to scrap the quota, which they say had been scheduled several years ago.