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Students left without admission have only applied to top 10 colleges. As many as 3,800 seats are lying vacant in several other colleges even as GU has added 2,000 more seats.

On one hand Gujarat University has issued advertisements in the papers that it is coming up with new B Com, BBA and BCA colleges and on the other it says right now there are more than enough seats available for these courses.

When contacted Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi said: “There are sufficient seats for B Com course and all the students will be accommodated. There’s no need to worry. Students who are left without admission have only applied to the top 10 colleges in the city. They have not filled forms in the other colleges that have 3,800 seats still vacant.”

He added: “Apart from that, I have also increased 2,000 seats. So, in all 5,800 seats are available for B Com course. Today, we had issued forms for admission to 2,000 seats. We received 1,099 filled-in forms.”

The scene at GU’s main building was chaotic on Monday morning as students lined up in long queues to buy admission forms for 2,000 new seats in B Com colleges. However, not adequate provisions were made to ensure the sale of forms goes on smoothly. GU had not even announced that the sale of forms will begin at 11 am. So students started queuing up as early as 9 am.

The admission forms were being given away from a single window. Police and university security guards were called in to control the crowds. A source at one of the BCA colleges in the city alleged that GU had cut down on number of seats per division