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New Delhi, Jan., 16 : Centralized admission
is all set to make a comeback in Delhi University. The facility
of online registration may also be available for undergraduate courses.
If recommendations of the high-powered committee are accepted by
the university, cutoffs for the general and OBC categories will
continue to be released by individual colleges. Further, SC/ST students
might be able to change their course at the college level. The committee
on admission reforms is likely to submit its report by mid-February.
After its fifth meeting on Friday, there was a consensus on the
need for reverting to the centralized admission process. The last
admission season saw the university dispensing with pre-admission
registration, including the centralized OMR and individual college
forms. The 16 principals on the committee are of the view that the
experiment was not a step in the right direction.
"Registration is a must and last year's experiment reinforced
that it helps manage admissions better. Most of the principals are
batting for centralized registration for both general and reserved
categories as well as making registration online for the ease of
outstation as well as local students. The university will also be
relieved of selling prospectuses," said a principal, a member
of the committee, on condition of anonymity.
Another measure likely to be recommended is to give SC/ST students
the option to change their course at the college level itself. At
present, the selected candidates get a slip from the university
allocating them the course and the college, which cannot be changed
at the college level.
"We are thinking of recommending a panel at the college, which
will be headed by a SC/ST teacher and will help candidates if they
wish to change courses according to the eligibility criteria or
vacancies," said another principal.
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