FYUP forms now flood black market!
10 Jun 2013 6:35 AM IST
The ‘novelty’ of the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) has brought a new headache for the Delhi University administration. Booksellers and stationers across the city have started hoarding and black-marketing common admission forms. Till Sunday, over one lakh forms were sold and 90,000 online registration done for the admission to the FYUP.
On a visit to Laxmi Nagar, a hub of student lodges across the Yamuna, this reporter found that black marketers were selling admission forms at higher rates. When asked about the forms, the shopkeeper said, ‘I have both categories of forms – OBC and General – but it would cost Rs 150.’ This was Rs 50 more than the actual price of Rs 100. Similarly, the forms for SC/ST and physically disabled were selling at Rs 100, which is Rs 50 more than the university rate’.
Laxmi Nagar and neighbouring Shakarpur are flush with book-sellers selling forms as they’re at a distance from the university and escape monitoring by university authorities.
The book-sellers are clear they are ‘providing a service and saving the students the bother of standing in a queue outside the crowded college windows.’ The book-sellers also have forms of School of Open Learning (SOL).
When informed about the open sale of admission forms in black market, Dean of Students Welfare JM Khurana said, ‘We are taking appropriate steps to curb these activities by urging students to not buy or deposit admission forms from anywhere except our 18 authorised centres. DU has ensured students can also apply online for UG courses.’
The university officials also pointed out that they have written to the Delhi police to help end black-marketing as ‘enforcement of law and stopping criminal acts was not under the university’s mandate.’
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