With the Delhi University undergraduate admissions already running behind schedule, it may be further delayed as the University is yet to come out with its admission policy for the upcoming academic session. The admission process was supposed to kick start from June 1st but that looks unlikely now.
“The only clarity provided by the university so far is that the application process is going to be completely online for the first time. How are students going to do thatIJ What will be the arrangementsIJ Now that the process is not offline how will supplementary documents be submittedIJ I have no idea about that,” said Ruchika Bhatt, an aspirant.
Every year, the admissions to over 54,000 undergraduate seats in various courses across 60 DU colleges begin days after declaration of CBSE Class XII results. The university notifies a detailed policy at least two weeks in advance so the students have a fair idea of the admission norms to be followed for the year.
The policy notification is followed by “Open Days” — counseling sessions to give prospective applicants and their parents an idea about what awaits them. However, the entire process seems to be in doldrums.
The university had constituted a 24-member committee comprising deans from faculties of science, commerce and arts, nine college principals and members from the executive and academic councils, to formulate an admission policy. They had made certain recommendations to Vice Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi who has not approved them yet.
The students and parents are confused about various issues including whether concessions will be extended to girl candidates by some colleges, formula for calculation of best four percentage, centralised trials for admissions under sports and Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) quota and number of cut-off lists, among others.
“What subjects can I count in my best-four percentage, whether girls will get some concession, how will sports quota or extracurricular activities (ECA) admissions proceedIJ All these questions remain unanswered. So how are we going to straightaway apply without clarity on these pointsIJ” asked Kanica Tyagi, another admission seeker.
The registration process, which was expected to begin on May 28, will now kick off on June 1. However, the further schedule, including the application deadline, announcement of various cut-offs and last date to secure admission under a particular list has not been announced yet.
The varsity authorities said information bulletins will be made available to the students once the registration process begins.
“We haven’t notified it in advance this year because some modalities are being finalised. However, the delay in admissions is not accidental, we plan to begin them once the PG, MPhil and PhD admissions close. Hence the date has been deferred to June 1,” a senior varsity official said.