OBC students’ body demands common CUET UG, PG counselling 2022 for university admissions
Vagisha Kaushik | September 23, 2022 | 03:54 PM IST | 1 min read
AIOBCSA requested Dharmendra Pradhan to direct UGC to conduct common counselling for CUET UG, PG admissions to reduce financial burden on students.
Know your admission chances in CUET Courses based on CUET Score by using CUET College Predictor 2024.
Try NowNEW DELHI: All India OBC Students’ Association (AIOBCSA) is demanding a common web counselling for UG and PG admissions 2022 through Common University Test (CUET) in various central, state, and other participating universities to reduce the financial burden on poor students. The students’ body wrote to the Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to direct the University Grants Commission (UGC) to conduct common or free CUET UG counselling 2022 as well as CUET PG 2022 counselling for various programmes.
AIOBCSA argued that each university is taking separate registration, counselling fees for admissions 2022 which is creating a ‘huge’ burden on students from Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) categories. “Students need to apply to different courses in different universities with a CUET score and pay separate application fees for each course. Universities are collecting counselling fees of Rs 350 to Rs 600 per course. Hence it is creating a huge burden on the students of SC, ST, OBC and EWS,” AIOBCSA said in the letter addressed to Pradhan.
Also Read | JNU, AMU, Kerala university among 10 Central Universities yet to announce UG admission 2022 dates
The students’ body demanded common CUET UG and PG counselling 2022 for various programmes in central and participating state Universities under single window in different phases with choice of options to students. “This will reduce the burden on the students from poor and marginalized communities,” it added.
AIOBCSA further said that if the option of common counselling is not possible for the universities, they can provide free counselling to students. “If common CUET UG and PG counselling is not possible to conduct then the universities can offer free web counselling for admissions. The intention of conducting a common entrance exam will be defeated if such exams create hurdles for students due to the financial burden on the students,” the OBC students’ organisation said.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Experts propose 7 spots for university townships in education ministry’s post-budget webinar
- Primary school teachers in Karnataka must serve 12 years before promotion, say new recruitment rules
- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over
- Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO
- ‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC
- Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms
- PARAKH’s Foundational Learning Study 2026 to cover 1 lakh Class 3 students across 10,000 schools
- Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus
- ‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality
- Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story