Overview

• A May 31 government resolution allows schools and junior colleges under the same management within a revenue district to pool their 10% in-house quota seats.
• The original May 5 policy had confined the quota to institutions sharing the same premises, prompting criticism from headmasters’ and college associations.
• The online portal, which crashed on May 21, resumed on May 26 and will accept applications through June 3 for roughly 20.43 lakh seats across 9,281 junior colleges.
• Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban and Thane have been designated a single unit for in-house admissions, while other districts follow their revenue boundaries.
• Officials say confusion persists over discrepancies between Marathi and English guidelines and how multibranch trusts must apply the new district-based criterion.