Jaipur, June 19 -- A decline in Commerce stream enrolment in schools affiliated with the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) has begun to impact colleges, as they struggle to fill available seats for Commerce courses this year, according to a government data. A decade ago, 50,920 students were in the Commerce stream in 2016 under the RBSE. Since then, the number has steadily declined as students increasingly shifted toward Science and Arts streams. It dropped to 30,798 in 2026- nearly a 40% decline over the past decade. The shortage of Commerce students in schools has also impacted college admissions. At Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan Government College, only 593 applications were received for 900 seats in the first semester of undergraduate Commerce courses, while just 31 applications were received for 150 seats in the four-year B.Com ABST program. At Government Girls College, only 64 were for 400 B.Com first-semester seats. Professor Shiv Prasad, branch secretary of the Indian Accounting Organization and head of the department of management at Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, emphasised the need to promote Commerce education and suggested introducing state-level talent search examinations, scholarships, and job-oriented courses to attract more students to the stream....