Around 1.63 lakh admission aspirants have registered on Delhi University’s (DU) admission portal till Sunday. Online process for the admission into various colleges of DU had commenced at 8 pm on May 30. It will conclude on June 14 and the first cut-off list is likely to be released on June 20.
The DU is holding “open days” for students and parents to clear their doubts. The first “Open Day” was held on May 31 and the second will be held in the North Campus on Monday.
Till now, 1,63,597 students have registered and 78,066 have made payments, the university said. Of the total number of registrations, 50,057 aspirants are in the unreserved category, 13,028 in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category, 11,269 in the Scheduled Caste (SC) category, 2,361 in the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category and 1,357 in the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) category.
This year, the DU has effected a 10-per cent seat increase in the EWS category and there will be a rise of close to 6,000 seats, taking the total number of seats for undergraduate courses to 62,000. There will be separate cut-offs for the students in the EWS category.