New Delhi: Refuting the reports claim of Delhi University admission starts from the first week of May, the official at the admission coordinator said that "the date of admission will be announced when our preparations will be complete. It is not possible to start the admissions in the first week of May."
Moreover, the official also said that there is no major change in the DU admission process this year, "There are many misleading reporting are being circulated. The sports and ECA quotas are not going to be removed. We will soon have an official meet where all the rules and regulation will be annouced and such confusion will b debunked," he added.
Talking to earlier, he had said that the ECA and sports admissions will be "delinked from admission cut-off lists". He further added that, "These seats are supernumerary in nature. Their admissions have no relation with the cut-off list so why should we unnecessarily wait for the cut-off lists for these admissions? They are dependent on trials so we will start those early, along with the registration process." The varsity has also decided to give extra benefits to students hailing from villages. "We are planning to give some advantage to students from government schools and those who have done their schooling in villages. This is in addition to the benefit we are already giving to girls," a committee member had said. The committee has also advised that an online calculator be devised, which can calculate students' best-of-four percentage according to the course. "Students tend to hop from one course to another, and one college to another, which unnecessarily delays the admission process. To discourage this, we have decided that the number of cancellations allowed will be one less than the number of cut-offs that come out," he added.
Meanwhile, "the academic council of the University of Delhi (DU) has given its nod to 30 new courses to be introduced across colleges in the varsity. The courses include both undergraduate and postgraduate level programmes which will be imparted in a choice-based credit system from the coming academic year 2019-20 onwards.