OBC students get 10% relaxation

Updated on: Thursday, June 16, 2011

Many colleges in Delhi University have extended the maximum relaxation of 10% in aggregate to OBC candidates across popular courses in science, commerce and humanities in the first cutoff.

Last year, barring a few institutes, such as Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Delhi College of Art and Commerce, most colleges offered a merit differential of 3-5% to OBC aspirants in the first list. However, by the end of admissions in 2010, as many as 20 colleges failed to fill up even 50% of the OBC seats at the undergraduate level.

Taking note of this, university sources said, vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh in his pre-admission meeting with the college principals asked them to go the "extra mile" to fill up seats reserved for OBC candidates. Singh also cited a Supreme Court order on OBC reservation which talked about giving the maximum 10% relaxation so as to fill all seats.

"We have to exhaust all means if we are to implement the OBC reservation successfully. If seats remained vacant last year as reported, we should ensure that the same doesn't happen this year. I hope by giving the maximum relaxation we can fill up the seats this year," said Singh.

DU is offering 14,500 seats to OBCs across colleges in various courses. Colleges like Ama Ram Sanatan Dharma (ARSD), Bharati College, DCAC, Deshbandhu, Dyal Singh, Laxmibai, Miranda House and Satyawati College kept the cutoff gap for OBCs- at 10%. for courses such as BCom (H), English (H), economics (H), BA programme and History (H), among others, many other colleges have also offered a relaxation of 5-8% across courses. In science courses, popular colleges have kept a cutoff gap of 3-10%.

Times of India

OBC students get 10% relaxation

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