Delhi University has decided to identify cluster colleges for conducting trials for the sports and Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) category in the upcoming admission season, with the varsity planning to conduct centralised trials for the same.
The sports council of the university has been given the responsibility to deal with the sports trials entirely, for which the aspirants will no longer have to appear for multiple tests to seek admission under the sports quota.
The university registrations might get delayed by a few days. Earlier, it had announced admission process to start on May 28 and has been conducting admission committee meetings back to back. “The varsity has not made minutes of meetings and approvals of various decisions are yet to be confirmed thus the registration process might be delayed,” said an official of the university.
The decision about the sports trials was taken in the admissions committee meeting on Wednesday.
Delhi High Court had directed the Delhi University to apprise it about the procedure followed by the varsity in the admission process of students applying under sports quota. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said this while hearing a petition seeking a direction to DU to centralise the admission process in sports quota and also for devising a mechanism for coordination between colleges in this regard. “You (DU) file an affidavit and tell us about the procedure followed by DU as on today. We will consider it,” the bench told the lawyer appearing for the university. The counsel sought time to file an affidavit after which the bench posted the matter for hearing on August 17.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday a lot of students reached the university complaining of failure in uploading the admission forms for the PG courses citing reasons of website getting hung.