Over 2.38 lakh students have filled the online registrations form for the 62,000 Under Graduate (UG) seats in the Delhi University (DU) till Saturday. The online registration for UG courses were started on May which will continue till June 14. Out of the total 2,38,741 registrations , a total of 1,35,030 have made payments.
“Out of the total number of registrations, 84,937 aspirants are from the unreserved category, 24,125 from other backward classes, 19,349 from scheduled castes, 3,964 from scheduled tribes and 2,655 from the economically weaker section (EWS),” said an official.
The first cut-off list is likely to be released on June 20, second on June 25 and the third to be released on June 29. The fourth and fifth cut-off lists will be out on July 4 and July 9 respectively.
On Thursday, the Delhi University organized its open day session at Maharaja Agrasen College where student asked questions about how they have to procure the EWS certificate. They were told by the officials that an acknowledgment receipt from the government authorities would suffice for now.
From the day the open days started on May 31, admission officials have been flooded with queries about how one gets EWS certificate or how the Government officials were unaware about it.
Delhi government had said that they have notified various SDMs, who have to issue the certificates about the issue.
This year, the varsity has affected a 10 per cent increase in seats for the EWS and there will be a rise of close to 6,000 seats, taking the total number of seats for undergraduate courses to 62,000.