The registrations for Delhi University’s undergraduate (UG) courses has closed at midnight on Monday, with the varsity already having received a record of over four lakh applications for 54,000 seats.
“The number of students who have registered online till 5 pm on Monday was 3,37,652,” said Malay Neerav, DU’s Media Coordinator and Joint Dean of Students’ Welfare.
In online mode, over all 3,37,652 aspirants have registered and 2, 25,049 aspirants had made payments till 5 pm. Among the online applications received, 1,40,396 are from the general category; 55,216 from OBC; 23,915 from SC; 4,855 from ST and 674 from Persons with Disability (PwD).
On Monday, more than 5,000 aspirants were seen outside Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur (SGTB) Khalsa College, North Campus of Delhi University (DU). To make the collection and submission process of application forms hassle-free, DU administration extended the deadline by 90 minutes. SGTB Khalsa College received the highest number (14,182) of application forms.
A total of 59,586 offline applications were received on Monday till 4.30 pm while the deadline to submit the form was 3 pm. The total number of applications sold is 72,596. The application forms received by the university for B.Ed programme are 11,848; and for the BMS/BBA/BBE courses, 17,300 applications were received.
A commotion was observed among the aspirants as everyone was in a struggle to fill and submit the application form before the deadline. Students submitted their forms by 4.30 pm in SGTB Khalsa College.
On the last day of the submission of offline applications, SGTB Khalsa College received 2,153 applications on last day, highest among all the seven offline centres. The only centre in the North Campus, SGTB Khalsa College received the highest number of applications in all days of offline admissions. To make aspirants less burdened due to the high pressure of deadline, student political parties came forward. These parties had set their cabins/kiosks with photostat machine and laptops.
“To save the time of students, we are providing the facility of photostat. Every aspirant needs to submit the original copy of the OMR application form and have to keep a photocopy of OMR sheet with them for record. We are helping them to fill the online applications too,” said Jagpreet Matta, an ABVP worker.
After SGTB Khalsa College, Rajdhani College has received 10,354 applications, which is second highest. Dayal Singh College received the least number of applications which is 4,103 only.
Aspirants are now eagerly waiting for the first cutoff list, which is expected to be released on June 25. The centralised fitness tests for sports admission will be conducted from June 18 to June 20 at the DU polo ground.
The tests will start from 9 am and the results will be uploaded on the DU website. The aspirants will get a certificate which will be valid for all the sports trials to be conducted by individual colleges.