Mistakes in documents prompt Calcutta University to block students’ registration – Times of India

Kolkata: Calcutta University has blocked the registration of several students across its colleges for reasons ranging from admission in multiple colleges, mismatch in personal information provided during admission to missing caste certificates.
The colleges concerned have been told to rectify the documents and upload them within this week to prevent cancellation of the applications. Accordingly, the institutes sent notices on Monday, instructing the students to physically report to the campus offices this week with relevant original documents for rectification of the errors, failing which the admission might be cancelled.
For the 2020-21 academic session, the entire admission process, including the verification of documents, certificates and mark sheets, was held online due to the pandemic. After receiving the relevant documents from students taking admission, college authorities had uploaded them a Calcutta University portal, opened just for registration.
“We are rectifying the errors, like mismatch in photographs and marksheets through the university portal. But there are many students who have not yet cancelled their admission in other colleges. This cannot be resolved till they cancel their admission in other colleges,” said an official at Bethune College.
Registration is an important aspect of the admission process, under which the freshers have to submit their boards mark sheets, certificates, photographs and other documents to get registered with the affiliating university. A student not registered with the university is not eligible to appear for exams and consequently, won’t receive any degree or diploma certificate.
“A total of 106 students at our college have been blocked on various grounds. Some of them did not submit their Class XII mark sheets, while the photographs of some were not clear. We have instructed the students to submit the relevant documents to avoid cancellation of admission,” said an official at City College in north Kolkata.
Till a few weeks ago, most colleges were shut even for non-teaching employees and most institutions functioned with skeletal staff to process the admissions. Principals said many errors could also be the result of oversight by college authorities due to staff shortage. “In most colleges, over 1,000 students take admission in arts, science and commerce departments. Collating data of so many students is a complicated procedure. Earlier, our officials checked the documents physically and only the verified documents were sent to the university,” said the principal of a south Kolkata college.
“We have already started working on rectifying the errors and the issue will be resolved soon,” said Tapan Kumar Poddar, principal of Vivekananda College.