BHOPAL : The higher education department announced fresh dates for online admission counselling for UG and PG courses after a goof-up in allotment of seats in private colleges. Seats in private colleges, which were not affiliated to Jiwaji University in Gwalior , were allotted. The department was supposed to release first list of allotment on Thursday.

Sources said seats were allotted to students in around 31 colleges. However, before issuing the list, officials of the department learned about the goof-up. On condition of anonymity, a senior official said the colleges were given affiliation for 2017-18 batches only.

Incidentally, during students' union polls in 2017, the issue of non-existent private colleges in the state capital had surfaced. In most cases, either their addresses were wrong or some had no students at all.

After initial confusion over number of colleges in Bhopal, where elections were to be organised, a list of 123 colleges was prepared. However, several of these private colleges could not be located.

A senior official, on condition of anonymity, said there have been issues with private colleges. At that time, BU registrar UN Shukla had said the review of each college would be done. However, it was not done till date.

According to fresh dates, the first round of online registration for UG courses will be held from June 17 to 19. For PG courses, online registration will be done from June 15 to 18. Seat allotment for first round of UG courses will be done on June 23. For PG courses, the first allotment of the seats in colleges would be done on June 22.

Second round for PG courses will start from June 29. For UG courses, second round of online counselling will be done from July. For the second round of allotment of UG seats will be done on July 9. For PG courses, seat allotment will be done on July 5. Third round for UG courses will start from July 16 while for PG courses to start from July 11.

College level counselling will start from August 1 for UG courses. For PG courses, this round is to start from July 27.

