Confusion among students over multiple admission centres along with a technical glitch in the website resulted in decline in the sale of forms on the first day of admissions for the Delhi University.
As chaos prevailed at Daulat Ram College and the website crashed die to excess rush, the sale of OMR forms online and offline dropped by nearly 15,000 on day-one as compared to the previous year. According to the official figures, the total online sales on the first day this year were 2,345 up to 5 pm while offline sales were 32,460 from 9 am to 1 pm. last year on the first day a total of 50,245 forms were sold on of which 42,860 were offline and 7,385 online
This year, the university has made 18 centres of admission in the city and the process began at 9 am on Monday. However, online applications were open at midnight and within the first five minutes itself 135 people had logged in. As for the receipt of applications, 3,129 forms were submitted through the 18 centre
A total of 17,062 candidates had logged in online but only 2,345 had submitted the forms and made the payment.
The online application was also interrupted in the middle because of overload. Malay Neerav, Media Coordinator, DU, said that issue was resolved in a couple of hours. “Due to too many people logging in the site had slowed down, but we fixed it in a matter on an hour or two.” He added that around 30,000 people had tried to log in at the same time.