Gurgaon colleges in demand

Updated on: Saturday, June 25, 2011

With cutoffs soaring in DU colleges and seats at a premium, government colleges in Gurgaon are getting more applications. This is likely to push the cutoffs in these colleges, which were hitherto not so much in demand.

The first cutoff list for city government colleges will be out on July 7 and the second list will be declared four days later. In some colleges, teachers expect the cutoff percentage for humanities to be up by almost 10% in comparison to last year. Sources said the minimum percentage for admission to commerce and management courses could touch 67%.

Colleges in the city have already reported a substantial increase in the sale of admission forms. Likewise, the submission of forms has been much more than the last academic year. Shashi Bhan, head of the commerce department of DCPG College, said, "The number of applications sold this year has increased by 2,000. We are expecting more students to join our college." Pratap Singh, a physics teacher in the college, said 800-900 forms have already been submitted.

Though colleges in Gurgaon are seen as a last resort for those who did not make it to DU, D R Yadav, principal of the college, insisted that DCPG has good facilities and disciplines. Getting admission here, it seems, is no cakewalk. "We take students on a first-come-first-served basis and only if the names appear in the first list," he added.

Principal of Government Girls' College in Sector-14, Dr Ashok Diwakar, expects the number of applications to swell. The college offers 17 undergraduate courses. "Last year, we had printed 11,000 prospectuses, but this year we will get 15,000."

The campus has three hostels - Ganga, Kaviri and Narmada. The criteria for getting admission to hostels will also change from this year. Teachers said more and more girls from different states are joining the college. Last year, there were two each from Ladakh and Pune, 100 from Delhi and 55 from Rajasthan.

Times of India

Gurgaon colleges in demand

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