Counselling of applicants to begin on Tuesday: Patna University

PATNA: Most city colleges are busy finalising the admission of students to the three-year degree courses in Arts, Science, and Commerce during the current academic session (2020-2021). All admissions are likely to be completed by the end of September and classes of the newly-admitted students will hopefully commence in the first week of October.
For admission in Patna University (PU) colleges, the overall merit list of altogether 19,377 applicants was released online on PU’s website last Saturday.Boys and girls whose names figure on the list are supposed to indicate their choice of subjects along with the institutions in order of preference by Sunday.
PU students’ welfare dean, Anil Kumar, told this newspaper on Saturday that the allotment of subject along with the institution will be made on merit-cum-choice basis and the list displayed on PU’s website on Monday. An applicant can see the allotment by entering his ID number. This will be followed by the counselling of applicants at four centres — Patna College, Patna Science College, B N College and Magadh Mahila College — from Tuesday. Before reporting at the counselling centre, students will have to download their allotment receipts and deposit the counselling fee online. This fee will be adjusted at the time of admission of students in the college.
Finally, the students’ documents and certificates will be verified at the counselling centres after which they may be admitted to a college. Those who are not satisfied with the allotments will opt for the provision of ‘sliding’ and wait for sometime for the change. A student can seek counselling for his admission at any of the four designated centres between September 14 and 18. An applicant will lose his claim of admission if he does not report at the counselling centre at the given time or if his documents are not found to be authentic.
“For any query regarding admissions, applicants can call on the helpline number 7068406005/7800006827 between 10am and 6pm,” said the dean.
There are as many as 3,500 seats in Arts, Science and Commerce in all the colleges of PU. There are 1,650 seats (600 each in Patna College and B N College and 450 in Magadh Mahila College) in Arts and 650 seats (400 in Vanijya Mahavidyalaya and 250 in Magadh Mahila College under self-financing scheme) in Commerce stream. In the faculty of Science, there are 1,206 seats, including 600 in Patna Science College, 350 in B N College, and 256 in Magadh Mahila College. Besides, the admission of students to different self-financing (vocational) courses running in different colleges will also be made simultaneously from the same merit list.
The vocational courses running in different colleges of PU are functional English (Patna College and B N College), BCA (B N College, Patna Science College, Magadh Mahila College), BBA (Patna College, B N College, Magadh Mahila College), biotechnology (Patna Science College and B N College), mass communications (Patna College), environmental Science (Patna Science College), social work (Magadh Mahila College), and gemology (B N College).
“A N College, College of Commerce, Arts and Science, T P S College, J D Women’s College, Arvind Mahila College, and Ganga Devi Mahila College, which are affiliated to Patliputra University, are admitting students to the three-year degree courses on centralised basis. The first merit list was released on August 24 and the deadline ended on September 8. The second merit list is likely to be released soon,” said A N College principal, S P Shahi.