Delhi
Edition, 16th July 2008
Hindu, DDU, Rajguru & Satyawati Out With 5th List
New Delhi: The house isn’t full yet. There
are some seats still left for the general category in many
colleges to raise that last ray of hope. On Tuesday, four
colleges — Hindu, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Satyawati
and Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences —
came out with a fifth cut-off list while still others are
planning to invite applications for seats lying vacant even
after the fourth list.
Surprisingly, at the end of it all, the most coveted and
hard-to-get courses like BCom (Hons) and economics (Hons)
still have seats to offer even in some campus colleges.
For instance, Ramjas that had closed admissions for economics
(Hons) after the second list, now has six seats lying vacant
besides nine in BSc (Hons) Maths and four in English (Hons)
in the general category. “We had declared economics
(Hons) closed earlier, but when Hans Raj and SRCC lowered
their cut-offs, many of our students started withdrawing.
Economics (Hons) was open in the fourth list, but by then
students seemed to have settled down,” said Rajendra
Prasad, principal, Ramjas College.
Though the college has not released a fifth list, it plans
to advertise for its vacant seats soon. Even Daulat Ram
is suffering from withdrawal pangs. Until the last day of
admissions for fourth list, there had been 162 total withdrawals
across all courses with 27 in BCom (H) alone. Besides, 23
students withdrew from the BA Programme, 16 from economics
(H), 15 from political science (H) and 14 from English (H).
The college has decided not to come up with a fifth list.
“But every department has been asked to hold a meeting
on July 18 to decide the required marks after which a waiting
list will be put up,” said Ira Pandit, spokesperson,
Daulat Ram. According to some teachers in DU, the exodus
from Commerce and economics can be attributed to the result
of CA entrance exam that was out on Saturday. “Many
students who could get through in CA, chose to drop out
of regular BCom. The students, who pulled out may consider
studying Commerce by correspondence now,” said a DU
official. Meanwhile, a declining interest in science was
again evident this year with some colleges opening admissions
only for science courses. DDU has a fifth list for Physical
Science and Life Science in the general category at 55%
and 59% respectively and the admissions are open on July
16 and 17. “We are ready to admit 10-15 students in
each of these courses as a safeguard against withdrawals.
Last year, students kept dropping out until September, leaving
the strength less than what was sanctioned,” said
S K Garg, principal, DDU.
Satyawati College has opened admissions on the first come
first serve basis in all courses except Hindi, Economics
and Sanskrit, with the cut-off lowered by about 2%. Hindu
has released a fifth cut-off — 82.5-89.5% —
for History (H). However, Shaheed Rajguru College managed
to fill all its general seats on Tuesday after its fifth
list was out.
