The Delhi University (DU) sold over 40,000 forms for admissions to its colleges on the very first day of sale of application forms Friday, officials said.

The sale of forms will be on till June 11.

‘A total of 40,559 common application forms were sold today (Friday) in 16 centres in the university. Of these, 1,416 forms were filled and submitted by the aspiring students,’ said S.K. Vij, dean of the Student’s Welfare Department.

The first cut-offs are likely to be declared on June 22, followed by a three-day admission process. The second cut-off will be declared on June 26, the third on July 1 and the fourth notification (if any) on July 6.

In the new session, the varsity aims at bringing greater transparency to the sports quota admissions. With this objective, DU is centralizing the trials, which till last year were conducted by colleges. The candidates will have to appear for trials in the third week of June at venues fixed by the university. These will be evaluated on a scale of 25 and marks sent to individual colleges.

Another new feature this year has been the introduction of real-time webchat on Tuesdays and Fridays from 4pm to 5pm. As a result, according to dean, students’ welfare (DSW) officials, the admission committee has already generated over 2,000 questions and answers, which would be made online.

The admission bulletin for the first time has also provided a detailed college-wise and course-wise availability of seats. For SC/ST category admissions, LCD projections would be used to update the students about the number of seats, vacancies and status of the admission process.

With DU completing the implementation of 27% quota for OBC candidates, there will be no further increase in seats from next year. “We have increased the number of seats by 54% (18% in each year from 2007-08). With the number of seats going up, it will be easier for students of the reserved categories to get admission,” said S K Vij, dean, students’ welfare.

All colleges implementing the quota have received Rs 6 crore to Rs 12 crore for infrastructure upgrade, said Vij. He added that work was on in most colleges and that the dean of colleges had been monitoring the progress through regular meetings. “Any construction requires various permissions and clearances from different authorities which takes time. Some colleges have already created extra rooms using bamboo and porta cabins,” Vij said.

The forms can be bought from and submitted at 17 centres. Bharti College would be replaced by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College this year from the list of the centres.

The School of Open Learning (SOL) will also start its process from June 1 and will complete it on August 31 without late fee and October 29 with late fee.

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