DU Admissions 2020 Delayed

Students seeking admission in Delhi University will need to wait a couple of more days because the tentative admission schedule shared by the varsity with its statutory bodies, which said that the admission process could start on Monday, has been delayed further.

Last month, it was reported that the registration process for admission to undergraduate (UG), postgraduate (PG), MPhil, and PhD courses was tentatively scheduled between June 8, 2020 and June 30, 2020. Admissions for the primary cut-off list for UG courses were scheduled between August 11, 2020 and August 14, 2020. This essentially meant that the registration portal would be opened on Monday.

However, a committee meeting of the academic council, slated to be held on May 29, 2020 and approve the schedule also as other decisions, was cancelled. Several Delhi University officials said that since the meeting has not been held thus far, the dates are likely to be pushed further and zip are often announced “conclusively.”

Arun Kumar Attree, the member of the committee, said the registration couldn't be started on Monday because the committee meeting wasn't held earlier. “We haven't been informed of when the meeting is going to be held next. However, we expect the registration to start out in around 10 days tentatively. The registration is going to be in two phases: first, students can register for admission and through the second phase, they will enter their marks. A ten-day window is going to be given to students after CBSE results are declared and therefore the cut-off is probably going to return every week then .”

DU council member Rajesh Jha said that the uncertainty over the schedule would increase the strain of applicants.”The admission department is an experiment within the direction of centralisation, whereas our admissions are complex and diverse. The meeting of the statutory admission committee should be held to require a stock of things on an urgent basis and make the method student-friendly.”

The document, to be placed before the committee, also mentioned that the schedule will depend upon the declaration of Class 12 Result by the Central Board of education adding that the dates “may be modified keeping in sight things at the time of admission thanks to COVID–19.”

Entrance exam for the 12 entrance-based UG courses was tentatively slated to require place between July 27, 2020 and August 10, 2020. “The National Testing Agency said it'll conduct entrance tests for various courses in July. In a perfect scenario, the registration process should close a month before the exams in order that the testing agency gets time to organize a database, generate admit cards and even arrange for the varied facilities at the 21 different centres across the country,” said the member of the admission branch, requesting to not be named.

The member added that the meeting is probably going to require a place in the week .”Students can access the helpline numbers mentioned on the web site for any query,” the member added.

Due to the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, DU’s admission process has been delayed by over a month this year. While the primary cutoff is scheduled to require place in August, last year it had been announced on June 27, 2020