AMU: Examination Centers in Various States
Letter to the Vice Chancellor AMU Prof. P. K. Abdul Aziz, June 24, 2009
Under item 9 of the agenda for the Annual Meeting for the University Court, it was reported that the University is holding admissions tests for admission to various courses at four centres namely, Bhopal, Kozhikode, Kolkata & Pune. In terms of the Executive Committee the resolution of 17/01/2008 / 31/03/2008 and the Academic Council Resolution of 05/01/2009 / 12/01/2009, this dec ision was taken primarily to avoid the overcrowding at Aligarh and secondly to give an opportunity for students from other distant states. However, the agenda note gives no indication of the criteria for the selection of these 4 places, in terms of statistics of candidates from the states near-by. In fact, for admission centres, the average number of examinees from the places or the districts or the states cannot be the only criteria, but also distance from and accessibility to Aligarh.

In principle there can be admission center in each state with large concentration of Muslims Considering that Bihar sends a large contingent to the AMU, there should be a centre at Patna. I doubt if Madhya Pradesh falls in the same category, even if one includes the neighboring states of Chattisgarh, Orissa and Rajasthan. Similarly, it will be much easier for the candidates from Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh or other parts of Maharashtra to reach Mumbai rather than Pune.

My suggestion, therefore, is that considering the large number of candidates from eastern UP, there should be a centre in Lucknow or Azamgarh, Patna in Bihar, Mumbai (in place of Pune) in Maharashtra and Guwahati in Assam, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, and Bangalore in Karnataka. My proposal is that the number of candidates who took the admission test in 2009 in the 5 existing centres, including Aligarh, should be tabulated state-wise and the admission centres should be relocated to cover all the major states with the highest Muslim population and highest candidates for admission On Establishment of 5 Campuses of the AMU