Chandigarh, June 1 -- UT's centralised e-admission portal, used by thousands of students and parents to apply for college seats across the region, has allegedly been running on an unencrypted HTTP connection for several months, leaving sensitive personal and academic data exposed to potential interception, a formal complaint to the UT education department has revealed.

The college admissions through the portal (dhe.chd.gov.in/eAdmission) are scheduled to commence on June 1, with the complainant warning that students and parents are being forced to submit sensitive personal information, including names, contact details and passwords on a platform without basic security protocols. The complaint warned that this violates students and parent...