With over 2.21 lakh students fighting for around 56,000 seats in Delhi University, aspirants face an uphill task in getting into a course of their choice.
Till now, evening colleges used to provide an option to students who could not make it to the coveted colleges, as cut-offs for evening colleges are comparatively less than that of regular colleges.
This led to the perception that evening colleges are inferior to regular colleges.
However, students can now heave a sigh of relief as several evening colleges are gradually transitioning to regular colleges.
Evening colleges were initially started for part-time working professionals.
However, as the competition gets tougher each year, regular students seek admission in such colleges too.
In the 2013-14 session Deshbandhu College (Evening) was turned into a morning college, by the name of Ramanujan College. The latter now functions in the same campus but inside a different building.
Ram Lal Anand College (Evening) switched to morning sessions as well in the session 2015-16, rechristening itself as Aryabhatta College.
Dyal Singh College (Evening) too is likely to turn into a morning college this session.
The University's Academic Council will give the final assent in their next meeting scheduled on June 20.
The evening college – which will be named after Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya – will share a campus with the morning one.
An official of the administration of Dyal Singh College (Evening) confirmed the chances of evening sessions turning to the morning in the current session.
On being asked why the authorities of evening colleges are switching their classes to morning sessions, Economics Professor Harish Dhawan of Aryabhatta College explained:"It was not possible to manage the timings of both colleges in a limited amount of time.
"The students did not get much time to perform any extracurricular activities. It was necessary for the students of both the colleges get adequate time."
Dhawan also claimed that with a high influx of regular students taking admissions in evening colleges, the change from evening to morning was inevitable.