AIDSO demands manual system of admission in colleges

BHUBANESWAR: All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) on Thursday staged dharana before the State Secretariat here demanding manual process of admission in colleges. The student leaders also demanded the Higher Education department to make all online processes including e-admission as optional like other e-processes including e-booking and e-banking.

A protest meeting was held at the lower PMG under the chairmanship of AIDSO Odisha State president Akshay Das. Later a delegation team submitted a memorandum to the Higher Education Minister on their demands. The student leaders said the majority of the students stand on one side of the digital divide, with easy accessibility and opportunity available only to a miniscule few. As e-admission being compulsory pushes majority of the students to an alien ambience, makes them feel inadequate, insecure and harassed, they added.

Matric result will be published in the first week of May 2013 and after that admission process would be started in the colleges. But the Government and the Higher Education authorities are silent about the process of admission. Even the Government ignored the order of the Odisha High Court to introduce manual process, AIDSO members alleged.

Among others, State vice-presidents Subash Nayak and Ganesh Tripathy, Secretary Shibasis Praharaj, secretariat members Kedarnath Sahoo, Sidharth Rath, Babi Balabantaray, Paramananda Sahoo and Krishna Sahoo condemned the callousness of the Government and high-ups.