Silver Linings for Streamlining Admissions

By the time my penultimate article for this year hits the stands, the ultimate question, “when will the medical college admission for the academic year 2025-26 come to a close” will continue to be an enigmatic riddle wrapped in a mysterious package.

- BY INVITATION S Vaidhyasubramaniam

In a system where an aspirational and gargantuan demand is oversized by regulated and limited supply, medical college admissions continue to hog the professional college admissions puzzle. The other professional college entrance exams-based admission processes have their own share of the complexities—either too early as in the case of law, or too much as in the case of engineering. Besides this, the efforts to streamline admissions for nonprofessional degree programmes are failing to gather the much-needed momentum to ensure smooth flow of high traffic. With Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill in its advanced stage of becoming a law soon, there is hope now which cannot become delayed disappointment later. Here is how.