NewsEducationCentralized Online Portal for UG Courses Admission Process in Brief: West Bengal Govt As part of the new system, a student can apply to any government or sponsored college/university that offers UG courses , by logging into a single portal rather than logging into a specific institution’s admissions portal. This excludes autonomous colleges, minority educational colleges, vocational colleges, law colleges, and universities that offer courses in fine arts, crafts, dance, music, engineering, pharmacy, nursing, medical colleges, and self-funding private colleges (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav/ Representative Image)Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element.
West Bengal Higher Education Department has decided to set up a centralized online admissions portal for undergraduate courses in government and sponsored colleges and universities.
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In a circular released on Wednesday, the department said that a 10-member committee consisting of MAKAUT’s Chief Technology Officer Pritimoy Sanyal, the Rector of Dinabandhu Andrews College, Dr Portal in coordination with officials from the Higher Education Department.
“The Department of Higher Education has decided to use a centralized web-based online admissions portal developed by Webel Technology Ltd for the West Bengal General Under Graduate Courses for Academic Sessions from 2023-24 at all State, State-supported Colleges Universities and state-sponsored affiliated universities,” the circular reads. In particular, the state government tried last year to introduce a central online portal for the admissions process at colleges and universities, but the initiative failed because the institutes did not have the technological support required for the central system at the time. The system will come into effect from this academic session following the publication of Class XII exam results until the end of May.
As part of the new system, a student can apply to any state or sponsored college/university that offers a UG course by registering with a single portal, rather than registering with a specific institution’s admissions portal. However, the centralized process excludes autonomous colleges, minority educational institution colleges, vocational colleges, law schools and universities offering courses such as fine arts, crafts, dance, music, engineering, pharmacy, nursing, medical colleges and self-funding private colleges.
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