An Online Admission Management System (OAMS) and Online Examination Management System (OEMs) of Assam University, Silchar was launched by Minister for Environment and Forest, Fisheries and Excise, Parimal Suklabaidya at Dargakona.
Launching the online system in the presence of Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dilip Chandra Nath, MLA, Dipayan Chakraborty, Registrar, Pradosh Kiran Nath, and other dignitaries at Raja Ram Mohan Roy Administrative Building, Minister Suklabaidya said the university authorities have taken a good initiative by bringing the admissions to different courses on online mode under a single umbrella. “This system will be handy and useful to those willing to enroll themselves,” he added.
Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Nath said the university is planning to take all the admissions on online mode under an integrated system. “Since last year, admission procedure was either offline, manual or partially online in most of the colleges and departments. Keeping this in view, the university has developed a comprehensive common admission portal for all its affiliated colleges and also for in-house departments named Online Admission Management System,” said Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Nath, adding, “This is not only a standalone admission portal, but it will also take care of entire life cycle of a student who is taking admission under the Assam University, starting from admission to migration. The admission system is integrated with the existing examination system.”
“If a student takes admission in one college, his or her applications in other colleges and departments will be automatically nullified. This will benefit the colleges and departments not by wasting their seats like in earlier years,” said a university official.
Under the OEMs, the colleges or departments can use this system for taking admission tests, internal class tests; it can conduct end semester examinations if required; it is capable of taking any competitive examinations by any authority; students can appear in examination by seating at their home using mobile or laptop. “Different types of the proctoring system have been included in this software like capturing the photo after minutes, capturing the movement of I ball, the opening of other tabs, etc. The software will log out automatically if a student does these things. Logging out five times will lead to cancellation of the examination,” added the official.
Due to the paucity of time and considering the pandemic situation this year, the university is taking this as a pilot project by bringing 34 affiliated TDC colleges, all in-house departments, and B.Ed colleges under the system. The rest of the colleges will come under the common portal in 2022.
The inaugural ceremony was virtually attended by Minister for Education and Welfare of Plain Tribe & Backward Classes, Dr. Ranoj Pegu, and Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs and Irrigation, Ashok Singhal.