Close on the heels of allegations of corruption involving the members on the centralised admission committee, now comes a host of suggestions to revamp the committee in a bid to streamline the admission procedure.

The suggestions were made by the Faculty of Education at a meeting convened in the wake of allegations and irregularities. The suggestions will have to be endorsed by the Academic Council and later by the Syndicate, the supreme body.

Incidently, the admission committee headed by professor Suryakant Shah, who is also the president of teachers' association, has shown little regard for the statutory body, though he himself is a member.

The Education Faculty's suggestion that only principals of five SGU-affiliated B.Ed. colleges, will be on the admission committee and the chairperson and the convenor will be only from the Education Faculty aims at keeping Shah out of the picture.

Shah, who belongs to the Commerce Faculty, has been the convenor of the B. Ed. admission committee by default since the past many years. His opponents say he manages the post by virtue of his closeness to then vice-chancellor B A Parikh. Being the teachers' association president, Shah managed to hold on to it even when the new vice-chancellor was appointed.

Another suggestion was to shift the headquarters of the centralised admission committee from Kamrej to Surat. Interestingly, the meeting also suggested to appoint a Syndicate member on the committee. The member will not take part in the admission process but will act as an observor to keep the committee members under check. The suggestion on appointment of Syndicate member has been governed by the logic that the representative's presence will help reduce, if not complete do away with, controversies dogging the admissions.

The faculty meeting took serious note of the alleged irregularities in the admission process. A senior faculty member said most rules and regulations related to the admission process were disregarded. All this took a heavy toll on students.

Some students despite being high in the merit list were denied the centre of their choice and those with less marks could easily get the centre they wanted. The meeting suggested that the admission letter of the student should carry the university registrar's signature along with the committee chairperson.