WB Centralised Admission Portal to be activated on June 17: Check procedure for application
The much-anticipated
West Bengal Centralised Admission Portal
(
WBCAP
) for
UG college admissions
will go live on June 17.
The state education department officially announced the date through a notification. It has been a long wait for the candidates who have been waiting since the Higher Secondary (HS) results were declared on May 7.
According to the notice, the
online admission portal
will be launched during a press conference scheduled for 2 pm on June 17.
Students will be able to submit their admission applications from 4 pm on the same day.
Why was there a delay?
The delay in opening the admission process this year was attributed to the pending
OBC reservation case
.
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The higher education department had earlier informed that until the reservation policy issues were resolved in the Assembly, the admission process could not be initiated.
The impasse was cleared after the state government's statement on the matter in the Assembly on,June 10, paving the way for the admissions to begin.
The centralised admission system was introduced last year. It allows students to apply for undergraduate courses across 16 universities and 461 government and government-aided colleges in the state through a single portal.
Students passing Class 12 from any recognised board, council, or equivalent institution in India will be eligible to apply and can choose from a wide range of 7,217 programmes. With this, the state aims to streamline the admission process and ensure transparency and convenience for thousands of aspirants.
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