Students are getting worried over some technical glitches taking place in the online and offline forms at the time of applying for admission in Delhi University (DU).
“Usually there is a best four option percentage category to calculate cut offs which is not there in the form. Also, there is no space to write the percentage of best five subjects. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this may not create any confusion when the cut off list is out,” said Akriti Narang, a student.
The students are of the view that with a great number of students applying this year and this option not being there, calculations made by the officials in a hurry to announce the cut offs may affect them.
For the Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificate number 11 digit box is required whereas in the form only 10 digit box is available. “Every year OBC certificate number increases by one digit. But the box in the form is still using 2011 certificate’s format.
I am confused about the number which has to be deleted,” said Bhumi, student from Haryana.
Few students also complained regarding the abbreviation used for Sri Aurobindo College in offline forms.
“When I checked I found the correct abbreviation of Aurobindo College is ACC but AMC is written in the form instead. So it was quite confusing while selecting colleges,” said another student.
According to students, option of selecting BA programme course and vocational studies have been mixed up.
“BA or vocational studies is written in the form. There is no option given separately for BA programme. ,” said a student.
According to J M Khurana, dean of students' welfare (DSW), no such complaints have come to their notice yet.
“If the digit box is less in numbers, the students should not write the alphabet used before the number. If a student wants to opt for BA programme, they can tick the vocational studies option,” Khurana said.
A senior official said there is a mechanism in place to check and calculate the percentage of the best four and five subjects.
On Thursday,12,500 forms were sold offline and 11,000 submitted. Around 8,000 forms were sold online making a total of 53,000 online forms sold since June 4.
Net payment option now open
After being criticised for not providing any online payment option while registering online forms for the ongoing admissions, Delhi University officials on Thursday informed that an online payment option have been put in place, reports DHNS from New Delhi.
Instead, a demand draft had to be sent to DU or the candidate had to personally deliver it at the office of the dean of students’ welfare. Students were finding it tedious to opt for the online form processing system due to unavailability of online payment system.
Therefore the number of online forms sold on the second admission day relatively dropped. The online form system was started with the intention to make the admission process easier for the outstation students.
“As an outstation student who would take the risk of mailing a DD specially during admissions? A little delay can cause me to skip one full year,” said Ankita Sahni from Meerut who opted to buy over the counter form.