With introduction to the new Gujarat Common Admission Service (GCAS) portal this year, 20% of seats in colleges of Gujarat University still remain unfilled.

In the first round of GU admission courses, only 10,000 seats filled out of 51,000.

GU scheduled common admissions for a total of 65,384 seats including 30,855 seats for B.com, 2,222 for BBA, 17,569 for BCA, 3,288 for Integrated Courses, Integrated Law's 528 seats, and 8,313 seats for BSc.

This year, over 73,000 students registered for admission to various colleges and courses at Gujarat University through the government’s GCAS portal.

In the first round, allotments were made for 51,123 seats against 65,384 seats, leaving around 15,000 seats vacant before the admission process even began.

Gujarat University’s three autonomous colleges, MG Science, HL and Silvassa College, have conducted their independent admission processes.

In BA, against 13,172 seats, a total of 2,984 seats were filled, in BBA, 244 seats were occupied against 1,842, and only 14 were filled against 170 seats in BCA.

In B.com, 5,270 seats were filled against 22,718 seats.

The GU suffered a huge loss due to the GCAS portal as in the first round less than 10,000 admissions were confirmed which was over 20,000 last year.

Students were fed up with the “sluggish” and “disoriented” portal as they could not get confirmation on their admissions.

“We inquired many times in the WhatsApp group made by the GU teachers but they did not even tell us how to check the list. Also, there was no list of confirmed students. The GCAS portal is sluggish and disoriented,” said a Postgraduate (PG) course applicant.

The GCAS portal lacks facilities for category-wise entry data, merit-seat matrix, choice filling, subject choice preference etc. The Gujarat government had given the programming work to Guj Info Petro Limited (GIPL) instead of the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

Due to the non-availability of merit allocation in the GCAS portal, Gujarat University had to take the help of the central government’s Samarth portal. 

The first round of GU’s UG courses was completed on June 25, with goof-ups in category-wise, college-wise and course-wise seats.

However, the second round of admissions is yet to be decided. 

In the second round, the students will get a chance to fill the college-course choice again and they will get two-day time for this reshuffling.

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