New Delhi, April 1: Delhi University’s plan to make the admission process for undergraduate courses entirely online today met with protests from students who said that the move will restrict those without access to Internet from applying.
The university has constituted a 24-member committee, comprising deans of faculties of Science, Commerce and Arts, nine college principals and members of the executive and academic councils, to formulate an admission policy for the upcoming academic session which will be notified by next month.
The committee, following its two meetings, is believed to have reached a consensus on making the entire admission process online unlike last year when both the online and offline application systems were in place. However, the move has not gone down well with the students.
A delegation of students, including members of the Students Federation of India (SFI), met the Dean of Students’ Welfare in this regard after staging of a protest at the varsity’s Faculty of Arts here.
“The number of applicants for DU’s undergraduate seats keeps on increasing every year and limiting the admission process to online form will restrict access to a significant section of students coming from the resettlement colonies, JJ clusters and working class backgrounds who have limited access to Internet,” a student protester argued.
