Aurangabad: A petition related to admission quota in minority institutes being heard before the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has affected the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for admissions to Class XI in junior colleges in Aurangabad and a few other cities.The second merit list for the CAP was scheduled to be out on Monday, but the education department announced that the list would be out at 11 am on Thursday.In an official communication issued to regional authorities on Monday, the state education department said that the time required for showing compliance with the directives from court would result into delay in releasing second merit list.The grievances of the petitioners, who are managements running junior colleges, was minority schools preferred not to fill in 50% seats for minority and surrender it to so as to attract students participating in CAP against the same.The court, which has converted the writ petition concerned into public interest litigation, has directed the education department to continue allotment of CAP students to non-minority institutes.The court added that after it (allotment) is completed, the students if available shall be allotted to minority institutes against such surrendered seats as an interim measure.When contacted, deputy director of education (Aurangabad region) Vaijanath Khandke pleaded ignorance about exact ruling of the court, but maintained that the CAP scheduled has been altered keeping in with the directives from the state education department in the light of legal matter in question.As per earlier schedule, the third general merit list for CAP was to be out on July 23, which also not will get postponed as a part of revised schedule, expected to be announced by authorities shortly.This is the second year of the CAP for admission to junior colleges in Aurangabad. The city was next to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and Pune to have CAP for junior colleges along with Nashik, Amravati and Nagpur from the academic year 2017-18.Meanwhile, a section of colleges have expressed apprehensions over first term of the academic year 2018-19 in junior colleges getting shrunk due to the extended CAP schedule.“The CAP process now is expected to be over by second week of August. Besides impending danger of legal hurdles, the process needs certain reforms in first place for sure as it is not good in the interest of students to have procedure as lengthy as two months,” Deogiri college vice-principal Rajnikant Garud, who is also part of CAP committee for Aurangabad, said.

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