Admission hiccups in UG programmes under various universities and colleges of Assam

 Colleges asked not to use their portals for admission purposes

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The lack of awareness among a section of the students and their guardians on the central admission portal has made the students suffer while applying for admission into the undergraduate (UG) courses under various universities and colleges in the state this year.

This is over and above the four-year degree courses under NEP-2020. Such hurdles led the Directorate of Higher Education in the state to issue notifications one after another to remove obscurity in the process of admission.

The Directorate of Higher Education launched the central portal SAMARTH and made it mandatory for all students to apply for UG admission into various universities and colleges only through it. In the system prevalent earlier, the students had to apply for admission into the colleges through their respective college portals.

Many of the students have applied for admission only through the respective college portals, not through SAMARTH. This has led the Directorate of Higher Education to ask all colleges not to use their institutional portals for admission purposes.

In a notice issued today, the Directorate of Higher Education said, “It has come to the notice of the Directorate that many UG applicants are facing difficulties as they have not applied to the Assam Higher Education admission portal and have instead applied only through the institutional portal. It was already notified earlier that UG admissions will be done through the Assam Higher Education admission portal, but colleges have simultaneously processed admissions in their respective institutional portals, creating confusion amongst the applicants. Due to this, the applicants, instead of applying to the Samarth portal, have applied to the institutional portals for UG admissions.

“In this regard, the higher education institutions are hereby asked to refrain from taking applications or simultaneously run their institutional portal henceforth for UG admission purposes.”

All these problems have stemmed from the lack of an awareness drive, which the department should have taken well ahead of time on the NEP-2020 and the way of application through SAMARTH. The directorate had to change the admission schedule for UG courses twice.

Meanwhile, the Directorate of Higher Education issued admission advisories to the colleges and universities offering UG programmes only today.

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