The first day of registration in Delhi University was marred with technical glitches as students faced problems in depositing their fees online. According to the University administration, 37,850 students registered themselves online but only 8,791 could deposit their fees by 5 pm on Thursday.
According to Srijana, a Humanities department aspirant, it took her nearly four hours to register but she failed to make the payment.
“The State Bank of India payment gateway was very slow and never finished the payment process despite several attempts. Finally, I gave up after nearly an hour,” she said. The process for the online registration of aspirants in over 54,000 undergraduate seats began on Thursday.
Another aspirant of B.Com (Honours) in DU complained that the University website was taking a lot of time to load the pages and one would have to refresh again and again to register.
“The payment process could not be completed. I rushed to Delhi University North Campus to get assistance in filling up my form,” said Nihal Thakur.
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“The online registration started at midnight and 37,850 students have registered till 5 pm. As many as 8,791 candidates have already made the payment,” a senior varsity official said.
Last year, the varsity’s website had crashed on the first day of the online registration.
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The last date for online registration is June 15 while offline forms will be accepted at nine registration centres from June 5 to June 15.