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Thinking of taking an admission in the University for some Correspondence Course??? Think again!!! Or think of some alternatives… and if you can’t, well… Good Luck!! Because you’ll surely need it in plenty!
I had gone to the university today to take admission for the M.Com Part I correspondence course. And it was terrible. And yet I would like to add, that I was one of the few lucky ones.
I reached the university around 12:45, and after standing in the line for 45 minutes, we came to know that all the photocopies needed to be attested. We didn’t know where to get attestation in the university. We decided to ask two people who work there, and luckily for us, they turned out to be extremely helpful. They guided us to the office of one of the Gazette Officers (or something to that effect) who gave us attestation within minutes, understanding that we were supposed to be queuing for the admission. We thought the difficult part was over. But we couldn’t have been more wrong. After standing in the line for half an hour, we were transferred to a huge hall, where all the students seeking admission for M.Com Part I and II were separated into around 10 lines. And if you think, we sailed through the rest of the admission process within minutes, well…. we didn’t!
It was 2:15 or so in the afternoon and the line was hardly moving forward. We were queuing for the verification of the Photocopies of mark sheets et al with the originals. So understandably, it was taking quite some time. But we had no energy to stand there for hours. But unfortunately we had no choice.
After long waiting, we were informed that the original of the Ration Card was also required along with the copies and my friend didn’t have that. We were about to leave the hall thinking of coming again the next day! But my friend decided to seek help from one of the persons sitting on the counters. And again fortunately for us, he willingly helped us. We were back in the queue.
4‘O clock and the people sitting on the counter announced they were closing the counters, asking people to come again the next day. There was an uproar among the people, and understandably so! Looking at the people’s outrage, the university staff decided to stay put.
We had been standing in the queue for 4 hours when we finally reached the verification counter. The verification, stamping etc was over. We were supposed to go to another room to submit the Demand Draft along with the admission forms. And suddenly, somebody declared that the staff collecting the DDs and forms had closed the room and headed home. We didn’t have the energy to even imagine coming back again the next day and standing in the queue for another 5 hours. Luckily, the man we had talked to earlier, asked some people to open the room again and collect the forms of all those who were through with the Verification stage. It was complied with, and we were finally out of the university, with our I-Cards in hand, by 6:45!!!
A long day indeed!

posted by Unknown @ 10:23 AM