Mission Admission...

20K e-forms filled till Monday night

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai: After a late start on Friday and glitches on Saturday, the state’s website for online admissions to junior college has taken off with 20,000 applications filed till Monday night. They were filed by 5,000 students.

Students who have registered themselves on the website will receive a free SMS informing them of whether or not they have made it to the merit list of any college they applied to.

While 1,000 of the 4,000-odd students who applied to Mithibai College opted for online admissions, 6,000 of the 10,000 students applying to K C College went in for e-admissions. At HR, one-third of the 4,000-odd applications were made online.

“The website is working smoothly and we have sorted out all the technical difficulties initially faced,’’ said Jitendra Shah, architect of mumbaiapplication.com. He added that those who face any difficulty should check their own internet connectivity. “If you have a problem applying to a particular college, delete all the cookies on your computer,’’ he said.

If there’s poor connectivity on the computer from which you’re applying, and you have to click several times on the submit button for a particular college, the website usually deals with the problem, said Shah. However, there’s a 1% chance that the website will record multiple applications. In that case, the student will receive a message from the site.

A few Shiv Sena shakhas in the suburbs installed computers with internet connectivity and invited students to apply online. However, after the early technical glitches, the Shiv Sainiks grew agitated and repeatedly called the state education department demanding an explanation. They were later pacified and the admissions process continued smoothly.

PAPER CHASE: A large number of offline admission forms have been sold as students initially adopted a wait-and-watch attitude towards the online system