DU 2011 ADMISSION -Delhi University closes admissions for general category students
Admissions of unreserved category students to Delhi University’s under-graduate courses came to an end on Wednesday. But the University will release a sixth cut-off list for OBC students on July 14 and admissions based on the same will go on till the July 16.
Colleges have admitted nearly 27,000 students to unreserved seats this year, said Dr J M Khurana, Dean of Students’ Welfare. “The number admitted higher as many colleges have over-admitted students,” he said. In the SC/ST category, the University has so far offered admissions to 12,600 students.
DU colleges, meanwhile, gave mixed reactions to the newly introduced admission procedure, with no pre-admission forms and walk-in admission for students who meet the cut-offs.
“I think it is time to do some serious re-thinking,” said Dr Pratibha Jolly, principal of Miranda House. The college, has over-admitted to its many courses. “The system has to be re-designed so that colleges admit the sanctioned number of students. It doesn’t make it any easier for colleges if they end up admitting twice the number of students,” she said. “This year the entire college machinery was devoted to handling admissions, leaving no time for any thing else,” said Dr Ujjayani Ray, admissions in-charge at Lady Shri Ram College.
Students have taken admission in two or three colleges simultaneously, as many colleges do not ask for submission of their original marksheets, making it difficult for colleges to calculate actual numbers, said Dr Ray. “It will be two weeks into classes before we know whether a student is staying,” she said. Others, meanwhile, have welcomed the move.
“The new system has made things simpler for students and colleges,” said Dr Mohammad Parvaiz Aslam, principal of Zakir Husain College.
“This year we haven’t lost time in dealing with massive amount of useless data. The only problem is that we have been asked by the University to re-admit first-year students who failed exams. They will join the semester system and we don’t know how many additional students will be there because of this,” he said.
The office of the Dean of Students’ Welfare said while the new procedure made things tough for colleges, it was more “people friendly”. “Students got more time to approach colleges. It especially helped outstation candidates as they did not have to fill up forms and people who hadn’t managed to make it to engineering or other courses had time to take admission in the last list,” said Dr Suman Kumar Verma, Joint Dean of Students’ Welfare.
Admissions of unreserved category students to Delhi University’s under-graduate courses came to an end on Wednesday. But the University will release a sixth cut-off list for OBC students on July 14 and admissions based on the same will go on till the July 16.
Colleges have admitted nearly 27,000 students to unreserved seats this year, said Dr J M Khurana, Dean of Students’ Welfare. “The number admitted higher as many colleges have over-admitted students,” he said. In the SC/ST category, the University has so far offered admissions to 12,600 students.
DU colleges, meanwhile, gave mixed reactions to the newly introduced admission procedure, with no pre-admission forms and walk-in admission for students who meet the cut-offs.
“I think it is time to do some serious re-thinking,” said Dr Pratibha Jolly, principal of Miranda House. The college, has over-admitted to its many courses. “The system has to be re-designed so that colleges admit the sanctioned number of students. It doesn’t make it any easier for colleges if they end up admitting twice the number of students,” she said. “This year the entire college machinery was devoted to handling admissions, leaving no time for any thing else,” said Dr Ujjayani Ray, admissions in-charge at Lady Shri Ram College.
Students have taken admission in two or three colleges simultaneously, as many colleges do not ask for submission of their original marksheets, making it difficult for colleges to calculate actual numbers, said Dr Ray. “It will be two weeks into classes before we know whether a student is staying,” she said. Others, meanwhile, have welcomed the move.
“The new system has made things simpler for students and colleges,” said Dr Mohammad Parvaiz Aslam, principal of Zakir Husain College.
“This year we haven’t lost time in dealing with massive amount of useless data. The only problem is that we have been asked by the University to re-admit first-year students who failed exams. They will join the semester system and we don’t know how many additional students will be there because of this,” he said.
The office of the Dean of Students’ Welfare said while the new procedure made things tough for colleges, it was more “people friendly”. “Students got more time to approach colleges. It especially helped outstation candidates as they did not have to fill up forms and people who hadn’t managed to make it to engineering or other courses had time to take admission in the last list,” said Dr Suman Kumar Verma, Joint Dean of Students’ Welfare.
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