Junior school admissions throughout Maharashtra to be centrally managed through new on-line platform beginning this 12 months

MUMBAI: From the approaching educational session 2025-26, first-year junior school (FYJC) admissions, which have been beforehand carried out on-line solely within the municipal areas of MMRDA, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Amravati, Nagpur, and Nashik, will now be carried out throughout the state. A govt decision issued on Saturday additionally talked about that admissions throughout the state might be centrally carried out and on-line till the final pupil will get a seat.
Till now, the 5 divisions have been independently conducting admissions for their very own areas. Whereas the decision talks about offering coaching movies to college students and oldsters for a easy course of, there are apprehensions over the delayed resolution, a central course of, and likewise over the inclusion of rural faculties.
The govt. has been considering a centralised on-line admission course of for FYJC, contemplating its utility and aiming to reinforce the benefit of residing for college students and oldsters by saving time, cash, and energy. The deputy administrators of college training in all of the eight divisions have been requested to confirm the data supplied by junior faculties, together with the branch-wise divisions, aided, unaided, class-wise and branch-wise consumption capability, accessible topics, and supply it to the designated on-line service supplier. The GR mentions that FYJC courses ought to start after the completion of the common 4 rounds, and the next rounds must be open to all on the school stage and must be primarily based on advantage.
An educationist, nevertheless, talked about that the govt. ought to have taken the choice round Oct or Nov because the tendering course of, data assortment, and coaching will take time. “Particularly now when the govt. is planning to incorporate all junior faculties, together with those within the rural areas. Only for the comfort of the method in cities like Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur, the govt. might find yourself inconveniencing college students and faculties within the rural areas. Additionally, together with faculties throughout the state on one platform will trigger chaos as there have been loads of circumstances prior to now the place college students get confused between similar-sounding names of faculties whereas filling their decisions after which wind up with mistaken faculties,” he stated.
A govt official, nevertheless, stated that there’s sufficient time for the implementation and the coaching. The prevailing software program used for a few of the cities might be prolonged to the entire state, he stated, including that the software program can have sufficient filters for college students to fill their decisions and to keep away from confusion. “College students from throughout the state, even rural areas, do fill the CET kinds on-line and likewise give the exams on-line. So, we hope for it to be a easy course of. We are going to have interaction volunteers in rural areas to assist college students on the bottom and likewise conduct coaching workshops,” stated the official.