The race for the 62,000 seats of the Under Graduate (UG) admissions in Delhi University (DU) will be over tonight. More than three lakh students have applied for various UG courses till Friday evening.
The online registrations for the UG courses were started on May 30 and will continue till Friday i.e, 14 June 2019. The students can fill the online forms up to 12:00pm. The first cut off is likely to be released on 20th June , second on 25th June , third on 29th June and fourth and fifth on 4th July and 9th July respectively .
As per the officials, the largest numbers of applications were received for the B.Com honors. Further, as per the data available on the website of DU, till Friday evening about 336548 students have registered online on the UG admission portal, of which 232282 are paid applications. Till Sunday, the varsity has received a large number of application for English with 90,000 applications, 83,000 for Political Science, 80,000 for BA (programe), 80,000 for Economic and 76,000 for History. There are 62000 seats for UG courses.
A total of 138412 applications have been received under General category while 48698 applications have been received under Other Backwards Caste (OBC), 31039 -Schedule Category (SC) and 31039 applications were received under Schedule Tribes category. Besides, a total of 7722 applications have received under the new Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category which has been implemented from this academic session.
Officers on Special Duty (OSD) admissions, Sukanto Datta, said, “The exact final figures will be available only after the release of examinations as the students choose and mark more than one subject. Thus, once the applications will be analyzed and the students will take admission in particular course, the figures exact figures will come out.”
Some students who are running from pillar to post get their EWS certificates done pleaded for extra time for filling online registrations. “I have applied for EWS category but the certificates yet to come. It will be helpful if the varsity extends the date of online registrations of UG courses for a day or two will be helpful for hundreds of students like me,” said Heena, a student.
However, an official on condition of anonymous said there is no chance to extend the dates of online registrations as the varsity is already running late as it started the admission process late this year than the previous. There is a chance if large number of students requests, otherwise there is no hope.”
Besides, the first cut off of Non-collegiate Woman Education Board (NCWEB) will coincide with the second cut off of regular colleges. The tentative dates of the examination for entrance based courses will begin from from 30th June to 6th July and admit cards for the same, are likely to be available on the website from 22nd of June.