Admission in professional course, must present Domicile

Mumbai: Students seeking for professional courses in Maharashtra will have to provide the domicile certificate at the time of admission. As State government made the domicile certificate mandatory during admission. Requirement of domicile certificate for MBA admissions is seeking mixed reactions from students. However, in order to provide quota to students from Maharashtra the Directorate of Technical Education has demanded the domicile certificate.

Directorate of Technical Education Maharashtra informed media that it is mandatory to submit domicile, caste, and income certificates while applying for the central admission process. Other states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra also wants to give priority to the local students.

The sudden rise in the demand of domicile certificate has led to extreme pressure on the Tehsildar office. Explaining the strenuous procedure Manas Kedar, Tehsildar from Andheri said, " Domicile certificate is granted to students who from past ten years have been a resident of a particular state. The individual has to submit the necessary documents in order to seek the certificate. Initially this certificate was limited to the school admission procedure.

However with the inclusion of MH-CET and MBA admission the demand has suddenly increased making it difficult for us to maintain a proper data. We are at present granting the certificate keeping in mind the future of students." However acquiring the domicile certificate is far easier through the online procedure. We have to fill the form and present the receipt to the local tehsildar office and seek the certificate within 24 hours. The manual procedure is tedious and time consuming.