India, June 3 -- The state government has updated the First-Year Junior College class 11 admission rules, allowing colleges to surrender unfilled seats from the minority and in-house quotas after the first round of admissions. The change is expected to increase the number of seats in the centralised admission process (CAP) from the second round onwards.

The earlier rule said that colleges had to surrender all quota seats for the CAP after the third round of admissions, however, the new rule allows them to do so voluntarily after the first round itself. Minority colleges, institutions with 50% of their seats reserved for the minority communities, can now open their quota seats to the CAP after the first round of admissions.

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