Mission DU commences to accomplish by June 16

Aspirants clad in their best dresses-skinny jeans, short T-shirts, sleevelss suits, funky kurtas teed off their first journey to triumph Delhi University to get a place in college of their choice. Discouraging the scorching sunrays, students, as well as parents, queued up at different counters of various colleges from early morning at the very first day.

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However they got a bit of relief with cracking on the day as clouds enveloped the sun in its arms and lessened the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth.

The admission process in DU commenced on Monday with common admission OMR (Optical Mark Reader) forms made available to the students at fifteen Admission Information Centres across the capital.

Not less than 25,000 common pre-admission forms were sold at all the 15 admission information centres in the Capital on the very first day comprising 3500 which were sold alone at Arts Faculty.

Many students were seen filling up the centralised form in haste to visit a number of colleges in a single day. The students wished to fill the forms separately so as not to miss even a minor chance of getting admitted.

Apart from the Integrated Centralised Registration (ICR) forms, colleges are allowed to sale forms at personal level.

“The OMR form is quite simple. However, initially it looked somewhat dizzy, but once you go through it, you fill it smoothly,” said Shivani, an English (H) aspirant.

Another aspirant Deepak looking very pleased with the University's arrangements, said, “The facilities are pretty well. Hassle free arrangements are provided to us and all information regarding sale of forms, their attestation, enclosures needed and all other essential information has been made available to us.” A number of DU students are all the way to help you at any point of time, he added.

Students were seen praying to the almighty not to let the cut-offs spring as high as was seen last year.

Most of the colleges started selling forms quite early, though the timing to sell the forms is 10 am to 1 pm. It was because of the huge crowd amassed at the counters from the early morning, said the college authorities at Rajdhani College.

As per the Supreme Court's order and the Centre's direction, the varsity has introduced provision for the OBC students in a separate column of the form. The Delhi University will implement nine percent OBC quota this year followed by the 18 percent next year to achieve the total 27 percent the third year. The varsity has also enhanced its seats by eighteen percent to keep the seats for general students intact.

Students, aspiring for under-graduate courses can purchase and submit admission forms till June 16. The first cut-off list will be announced on June 26 followed by subsequent cut-off lists on the later date. The DU's new academic session will start on July 16 as generally happens every year.