New Delhi: Delhi University (DU), Delhi, is likely to issue admission forms for session 2012 from June 4, 2012 in around 15 post offices, along with 10 designated University colleges. Aspirants can start applying for admission / registration to Delhi University from June 4 to 18, 2012. As per sources, this is for the first time when the University has decided to give out centralized application forms online as well as over the counter.
The online forms can be well accessed on DU official website: http://www.du.ac.in/, while the physical forms will be made available at post offices across the city and 10 designated colleges, this year. No college (except St Stephens College) can give its own forms for general and OBC categories. The physical forms will be purchased and submitted at post office from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. However, from this year, the cost of application form has been doubled to Rs 100.
Earlier, the University had planned to offer the facility of buying and submitting forms at 15 post offices only, but it has added the colleges to its list of venues, in order to make the process more accessible for students. Explaining about the decision, Professor J M Khurana, Dean, Students Welfare, said that though the University was considering selling forms over the counter only at post offices, but there were requests to rope in colleges too. Therefore, the committee decided to increase the number of centers where forms can be bought and submitted by adding 10 colleges to the list.
He further informed that the first cutoff will be declared by colleges on June 26, and this time, the University is likely to prepare five cutoffs. Professor Khurana also confirmed that the last cutoff is scheduled for July 10 with the new session beginning on July 23. In addition, colleges will conduct admissions over three days after each cutoff. Breaking the former trend, admissions, this year, will begin the day the cutoffs are declared and not the following day, which will actually help colleges to save time, he added.
However, he clarified that there shouldn’t be any confusion. There is anyway not much rush on the third day of admissions, and thus, students will have ample time to decide and confirm their admissions. Moreover, admission will not be confirmed on first-come first-served basis. Any aspirant who meets the cutoff and other eligibility criteria of individual colleges can lay claim to a seat over three days.
DU has also decided to keep admissions through sports quota decentralized, where, each college will conduct its own trials for different sports. The trials will be organized under the supervision of a committee set up by the head of the sports department in every college. The committee, headed by the principal, will comprise experts and a university observer. Furthermore, the University has asked colleges to give equal weightage to a candidate’s certificates and performance in the trial. The weightage this time will be 50%-50% instead of 75% to certificates and 25% to trials as was the case last year.
For assistance and queries, candidates can use the following DU helpline numbers from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm: 155215 or 011-27006900 or can visit the University’s aforementioned official website.
