Admission of SC/ST candidates will also be based on cutoffs

Updated on: Thursday, March 21, 2013

Like general and OBC aspirants, the admission of SC/ST candidates will also be based on cutoffs and they will be given the option of choosing their colleges and courses.

On Wednesday, a nine-member committee — constituted to prepare the admission policies for the four-year-undergraduate degree scheme of DU and its time-table — recommended a cutoff-based admissions for SC/ ST candidates. At present, 22.5% seats are reserved for the SC/ST candidates.

The committee, constituted by DU vice chancellor, recommended that the SC/ST candidates should be given the opportunity to choose their own college and courses. Till last year, the admission process of SC/ST candidates used to be different from that of general and OBC candidates. After the centralized applications, the SC/ ST students were issued slips stating the name of the college and the course given to them . The committee has recommended that instead of the slips, the college should come up with a separate cutoff list, based on which the admission will be done. This will give more choice to the students, said Virender Bhardwaj, a member of the committee.

Another decision was taken on the process of distribution of the BA/BCom/BSc programme seats in Discipline 1 and 2. Since these programmes will be done away with, thus colleges can distribute the seats in Discipline 1 and in 2, where ever there is a scope.

Admission of SC/ST candidates will also be based on cutoffs

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