pune a total of 1522 std xi bifocal science stream seats remained vacant at the end of the counselingbased table round allotment process on monday of these 1013 seats were meant for candidates falling under the statutory reservation category like scheduled castescheduled tribe sc st vjnt and obcs deputy district vocational officer d c nevase told toi nevase said the high number of vacancies in the statutory quota seats is mainly on account of the eligible students looking for other alternatives like poststd x diploma courses besides many of these students can not afford the high fees for the unaided bifocal seats usually the vacant seats are later converted into general science seats and students are admitted against these seats at institution level after the cap is over the focus of the ongoing std xi centralized admission process cap for 159 junior colleges in the city and neighbouring pimprichinchwad now shifts to the allotment of the larger section of conventional arts science and commerce streams the first list of allotment is expected to be released by the std xi cap committee on july 18 this year the district vocational office had declared availability of 5525 bifocal science seats at 73 junior colleges for trades like computer science electronics information technology scooter motor servicing electrical and mechanical maintenance students who intend to pursue engineering studies after std xii usually opt for these seats as it enables them get rid of one language and biology subject often the grantable seats which are at few junior colleges like the fergusson and abasaheb garware colleges get allotted in the first two days of the table round allotment process however computer science electronics and information technology seats normally fall in the nongrantable category which draw relatively high fees nevase said barring the 10 seats management quota seats and the 50 quota for minorityrun institutions a total of 4640 seats were available for the table round allotment process which started on july 4 of these 3118 seats were allotted and the remaining 1522 seats remained vacant he said of the 539 seats reserved for sc candidates only 246 admissions were effected similarly only 29 of the 300 seats meant for st candidates could be filled in the vjnt category 180 seats were filled against availability of 450 and 572 seats were allotted as against 771 seats meant for obc candidates most vacancies were in the junior colleges located in the fringe areas like chandannagar and yerawada in the east parts of the city and narhe which is situation off the katrajdehu road bypass last year the cap committee had reported 550 vacant seats for bifocal science stream