Vadodara: The Vadodara unit of the Congress party on Saturday demanded that MS University give admission to students who have passed the Class 12 commerce stream supplementary exams. After the supplementary exam results were declared, GCAS provided a last chance for admission, until July 21. However, the link to fill admission forms for the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce course at MSU has been closed. “The purpose of the supplementary exam is to ensure a student’s year is not wasted and he or she gets the chance to study with regular students in the same year. If such students do not get admission, why is the supplementary examination conducted?” asked Vadodara Congress president Rutvij Joshi. “University authorities are denying admission to students on the grounds that they do not have enough seats, which is a blatant lie. When Dr Anil Kane was vice-chancellor, 8,800 students got admission, later 9,000 students were given admission, and during Covid-19, 10,000 students were admitted,” Congress spokesman Kapil Joshi said. “The BJP-ruled state govt, instead of capping the student intake, should create more posts and recruit teachers so that students do not suffer,” he said. “If that cannot be done, the state govt should bear the cost of fees that students are forced to pay at private universities,” Joshi said, adding that the centralized admission process through GCAS is helping private universities, which have been excluded from the system.
