Finally engineering entrance forms reach relieved students
Pune Forms for the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) finally went into distribution today, bringing relief to worried students and parents who had agitated on Monday. The Laxmi Road branch of Syndicate Bank, where the agitation had taken place, started distributing the forms from 7 am.
The forms were always available online but students in Maharashtra are reluctant to use that facility. Many are under the notion that that this would force them to appear at centres outside the state.
An official from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts the examination, dispelled such doubts. “I agree there was a problem last year when students were sent to faraway centres, but this time we have raised from three to four the number of students’ choices for centres,” the official said.
The assurance notwithstanding, students preferred the paper forms and lined up outside the bank from 10.30 pm on Tuesday night. “About 500 students came with their parents till midnight and a thousand more came early in the morning.
We made a list according to arrival and queued up from 5 am outside the bank,” said Jayesh Kumar, a parent who wanted the form for his son.
Charuta Mujumdar, a candidate, said “I arrived at 7.30 am but still I got a form by around 10.30 am.”
The bank ensured that forms were distributed smoothly after the experience on Monday, when the police had to use force on students and parents for disrupting traffic. Bank manager Eknath Kamble said, “Around 4,000 forms from were sold by 1.30 pm. The next lot of 3,600 forms is expected soon. Forms will be dispatched from Delhi periodically till January 5, the last day of filling them. There will be enough.”
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