The competition to grab a seat in Delhi University admissions is getting more difficult by the day as the application to the undergraduate courses having crossed the mark of one lakh on day three of the commencement of the registration process.
On Friday, 40,582 applicants have completed the registration process for 60,000 seats.The last date for online registration is June 19 and the first cut off will be announced on June 27.
Besides, the first time online registration process, the university campus - both South and North - are witnessing high footfall of students and parents for queries, and interaction with DU officials at the conference centre.
“The enthusiasm of the admission seekers for the the admission to the undergraduate courses based on merit is reflected in the online registration statistics. By 6:30 pm of June 3, 1,14,152 online registrations were done on the university admission portal,” said Tarun Kumar Das, Registrar of the university.
“There are 40,582 applicants, who completed the full registration process including fee payment… Of the applications completed so far, 20,081 are from boys and 20,500 from girls. One application has been received from others category,” he added in a statement.
The university has organised an elaborate Open House sessions from June 1 to June 11 but with the high number of enquiries, the university has extended a day more on June 13 at Keshav Mahavidyala. Saturday would be the last day of Open House at Conference Centre of the North campus and it would be followed with sessions at colleges.
The university had organised Open House at SGTB Khalsa College on June 6 and Venkateshwara College on June 7. On June 8 and June 9, the session would be in Zakir Hussain College while on June 10 to 11, it would be in South campus.
The online registration had begun on Thursday with 39,000 applications registered on the first day. The Centralised Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) forms are available on Delhi University’s website - www.du.ac.in - and students will have to make the payment through internet banking.