DU’S OPEN HOUSE SESSION GIVES CLARITY TO ADMISSION SEEKERS
The fight for 56,000 seats up for grabs at Delhi University went underway on Monday, as the admission process kicked off with the online registration of application forms.
University officials conducted the first Open House session at North Campus here to address queries from applicants and parents regarding the admission process.
Last year, the University had started the first online application registration process, which was marred by technical glitches. However, this year, University officials have claimed to have added dedicated servers to cater to more than 2,50,000 prospective aspirants.
The online admission process was supposed to start from 5 pm on Monday, but was delayed by an hour. The application window will close on June 12. “Between 6 pm and 6:10 pm, we saw around 200 online registrations. If the present momentum continues, we can expect around 10,000 applications on the first day,” said an official associated with admissions department.
“We had learned from the previous admission and also took the feedback. We want to make the process hassle-free for students and parents alike and will try to address all grievances within 24 hours,” said Maharaj K Pandit, head of the Admissions Committee.
The Open House session, conducted at the Conference Hall located near the Arts Faculty, was a packed house.
The session was moderated by members from the select committee deputed to look after the admission process. The committee comprises of members from the Admission committee and the Dean Student Welfare Association.
The session will be conducted for the next ten days from 10 am to 1 pm.
To make sure that this time the admission passes without a glitch, the University has done away with multiple forms and will only require a single online form. “We request all applicants not to rush with the online registration. Since the form will include Class XII roll number, multiple application forms cannot be made,” said Gurpreet Tuteja, Deputy Dean of student's welfare.
This year, the varsity has introduced the best of four marking method, in which students will have to include primary subjects, demarcated in a list for a particular course.
“An applicant who applies for a History Honours course will have to include the subject History in his application, failing which there will be a deduction of 2.5 percent,” Tuteja said.
Parents and students had a wide range of queries from the University officials. Many of them inquired about the reservation policy, requirements for the courses in the best of four break up, list of minority colleges, and the admission process for professional courses like Bachelor of Financial and Investment Analysis (BFIA).
With an elaborate break-up of reservation, ranging from SC/ST/OBC to Sports, Kashmiri Migrants and Persons with Disabilities (PWD), many people at the session wanted a clear picture of the reservations in OBC quota due to discrepancies in OBC certificates. Some parents also talked about issues with their income certificates.
“My name in the OBC certificate is correct, but in the school certificate there is a problem. The officials have asked me to correct the name since I have at least two weeks to make the change,” said an applicant.
Some students also asked if they could apply for ‘dual degrees', to which the University officials replied that an applicant can apply for as many courses but only take admission in one course.