Girls make presence felt at Hindu, SRCC

Updated on: Friday, June 17, 2011

It was girls' day out at Hindu College and Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) on Thursday. Nearly 75% of the candidates who were admitted on the first day of admissions for the 2011-12 academic session happened to be girls.

Hindu College offered admissions to 205 aspirants of which 203 confirmed their admissions by depositing the fees. But interestingly, 146 of those who took admissions are girls. "We realized that the number of girl aspirants was significantly high pretty early in the day. After analysing the data, the numbers were found to be overwhelmingly tilting towards girls," said principal of the college, Vinay Kumar Srivastava.

The girl candidates were evenly distributed across BCom (H), chemistry (H), sociology (H) and economics (H), among others. A majority of them preferred BCom (H) and economics (H), as was evident in SRCC as well.

Attributing the success of girls students in school education, Srivastava said: "Girls have been performing better and with qualitative improvement they are shining even in high cutoffs. Among the currently enrolled students at Hindu College, 49.28% of them are girls."

Of the 51 admissions at SRCC in economics (H), 39 were girls, while for the popular BCom (H) course where 237 candidates were admitted on the first day, the college admitted 150 girls. "This is basically a paradigm shift. The quality of girls' education is improving as is their involvement in the education process. This is going to have a positive impact on the qualitative growth of education in the country," said principal of SRCC, P C Jain.

"In BCom (H) the percentage of girls has crossed 65% this year as against around 55% in 2010. In economics (H) the number of girls have crossed 75%," added Jain.

Times of India

Girls make presence felt at Hindu, SRCC

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