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1300 DU Seats Still Vacant For Reservations

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It is an irony and a study in contrasts. Even as aspirants battle it out for each and every DU seat, with just half a percentage making all the difference to getting into college, an estimated 1,000 seats of the total 43,000 undergraduate seats on offer at the university, are going to remain vacant.

The reason: the 3% reservation for physically challenged students and the dearth of sufficient applications. The university has received just 322 applications for the nearly 1,300 seats in the university (3% of the total number of seats) that are reserved for physically challenged students. And with a rule that these seats have to be kept vacant till the last date of admissions, many end up remaining so for the whole session.

Says Professor S K Vij, dean students` welfare (DSW): After the last date of admissions, it is the discretion of the college as to what they do with these seats. We have no say in it. The colleges, though, have a different take on the matter. S R Arora, principal of Hansraj College says: We have no say in the admissions to any of the reserved categories. We get a list from the university and admissions are made as per that list. We have about 22-23 seats in the college for physically challenged students, but we rarely receive more than five such students in a year. The rest we are not authorised to fill.

Agrees Jitender Kaur, principal of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College: The university forces us to keep these seats vacant, no matter how many general category students may be knocking at our doors. There is a letter saying that `don`t fill these seats till you hear from us`. But the communication that should say that these seats may be given to other students, never arrives.

Hindu, however, remains one of rare DU colleges who have devised a way out of this imbroglio. Principal Kavita Sharma says: We take whatever students we get as per the cut-offs declared and then also admit all quota students who are sent by the university. This way, some of the classes have a few more students than the designated capacity, but at least we are not depriving deserving candidates

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