Sessions to teach online admission process in DU

LAST YEAR, 2.21 LAKH CANDIDATES HAD APPLIED TO THE UNIVERSITY. MANY OF THEM FACED PROBLEMS IN PAYING THE REGISTRATION FEE ONLINE

NEW DELHI: Delhi University will hold a two-day pre-admission interaction and orientation programme at its North Campus for undergraduate aspirants on Friday and Saturday so that they could learn the online admission process.

This year, applicants can register themselves for merit-based as well as entrance-based courses on the same portal through one application, a statement issued by the university said.

The university has around 56,000 seats in 66 colleges under the merit-based admissions and around 1,700 undergraduate seats for entrance-based admissions.

“As the majority of students apply from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the details of an applicant’s marks in Class 12 will be automatically captured by the software from the database provided by the CBSE, once the student enters his/her roll number and other details,” the university said.

A university official said they are conducting the two-day session to familiarise the aspirants with the process of online registration and admission in the undergraduate courses this year, particularly in the context of some new features added to the online applications this year.

“This year we have added the five-year integrated Journalism course on the portal unlike last year when registration for this course was done separately,” the official said.

The online registration form will also allow applicants who are applying under the sports quota to upload their three best certificates instead of only one. “The three certificates have to be uploaded as three separate documents,” the statement said.

“It is felt that feedback from the stakeholders during the orientation programme will be crucial in smooth facilitation of admission process,” it said.

Last year, 2.21 lakh candidates had applied to the university, with more than half the applications coming from Delhi. Many of these students had faced problems with the online payment of registration fees, even in the last leg of registration process. Students had complained that even after paying the registration fees, the online portal would say that the payment was pending. Officials had also said that around 15% of the grievances they had received pertained to payment issues, and most of them had been resolved.