India, July 9 -- Around 15,190 students have not sought college admissions despite being allotted their first-choice college during the First-Year Junior College (FYJC) online first round of the centralised admission process (CAP). As per the rule, these students will not be allowed to apply for admissions in the second round and will have to wait for the third round.

Out of the 139,943 students allotted colleges in the CAP first round, 68,927 have taken admission in various colleges of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as the FYJC admission process is underway in 9,435 colleges of the state. In total, there are 2,123,720 available seats across colleges, of which 1,670,598 are available for the CAP round.

The state education departme...