The Maharashtra government has finally given the domicile certificate requirement a thumbs down for securing admission to a professional course (including MBA and PGDM) in the state. In a communique, the state government has declared that even a birth certificate or a standard class X passing certificate belonging to the state will serve as proof of domicile for those applying to professional courses through the state quota.
Ironically, the information which has turned the tide for hundreds of students has not yet been updated on the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) website and the site still runs the extended deadline to submit domicile certificates (when PaGaLGuY asked the DTE Director why the website had not been updated, his personal assistant replied that since the news has come in the media, people should consider it notified!).
The news has however not been taken too kindly by quite a few students. CET candidates posting on PaGaLGuY seem quite irked with recent developments in the domicile certificate issue. Most applicants are tired of having to run helter-skelter to collect the necessary certificates, only to be told now that they are not needed.
A candidate posts,”paying extra for domicile.. queuing up for 4 hours for domicile and then for ARC ..running here and there after the DTE officials if the receipt will be accepted.. and all this in vain if they call us irresponsible fr not reading the brochure what would you call these people who are still not able to make it (no offenses to anyone, but yea we slogged to reach till here) and what would you call DTE for delaying the process every other day .. and then they are managing an entrance exam for management .”
Yet another says, “Were we crazy to slog & run behind all the documents to be submitted on time. This is disgusting. The body which conducts admission process for Management is not capable enough to manage the admission process & take unbiased decisions. Just because some 1000 students havent submitted their certificates more than 65,000 students have to suffer. This is really sick.”
Another candidate hold the opinion that those who will now gain easy access to the Maharashtra CET bouquet of colleges do not deserve it. His post reads, “Do these fools really deserve to be an MBA? I started the process (of getting a domicile certificate) way back in January to get it done.”