GCAS or Student Harassment? Questions the Education Department Must Answer
The idea behind the Gujarat Common Admission Service (GCAS) was to make the admission process easier for students through a single registration platform for various universities and colleges across Gujarat. On paper, it sounds like a progressive step towards digital convenience and transparency in higher education admissions. But the ground reality tells a very different story. Before GCAS, students could smoothly take admission after their results were declared. The process was comparatively simple, direct, and less stressful. Today, however, students are being forced into a complicated online system that has become more of a burden than a solution. The government announced that colleges would help students fill out the forms online for free to ensure convenience. Yet the portal demands payment before students can even properly access or verify important course details. Reserved category students are charged ₹150, while students from other categories are charged ₹300. The paym...