According to the statistics provided by the education department till Thursday a total of 59,643 application forms were sold and 48,824 forms were accepted. There are total 50,565 seats in the city for class 11. As against the seats, forms submitted are less. But there is no parity in proportion of sale of forms and submission for arts and science stream. "The seats for the arts stream are going to remain vacant. But on the other hand, we may have to increase the seats for science stream," said G K Mhamane, deputy director, education department.

Mhamane however clarified that, as there were around 5000 students who had submitted two forms, one for science stream and other for commerce (English medium) stream, there would be no crisis situation. "We have talked to some of the colleges in terms of increasing seats of science stream in case the situation demands," he said.

For commerce stream there are 20,640 seats to grab and till Thursday 22,919 forms have been submitted.