The applications for undergraduate courses at Delhi University may have touched 250,000 this year but experts claim that the real number could be much less.
The total number of applications received last year, for example, was nearly 146,000.
This year, the number jumped by over a lakh.
According to Jitender Khurana, dean, students’ welfare, the number of applications from the scheduled cast and tribe categories has doubled this year — from 23,000 last year to 47,484 this year.
“These figures clearly point out that some applicants have submitted more than one form. Each year, the number of applications in DU has been increasing but this sudden increase of over 50% point to only one thing — duplication,” said an official who did not want to be named.
The university will now have to scan all forms and see how many duplicate forms have been submitted.
Since all aspirants have been asked to fill in their class 12 board roll numbers, these unique numbers will have to be scanned and the real number of applicants ascertained.
That duplication is rampant is clear from the applicants’ experiences. Aayesha Mehta, a resident of Ludhiana, is an example. After filling the application online form, she came to Delhi specially to fill in and submit the paper form, and that too twice.
“I was not sure if all colleges would accept the online form so I filled a paper form last week. Then I realized that I had made a mistake by entering the wrong marks in one subject so I filled another form,” she said.
The university does not disqualify students if they fill more than one form, a fact that students know and are willing to exploit. One of the most common causes for duplication seems to be mistakes students make while filling in the details of the forms.
On Wednesday, aspirants queued up at various centres in DU, in what appeared to be a last-ditch attempt to rectify grievous errors made on their forms.
Source: HindustanTimes.com
Many of those who queued up on Wednesday were fervently seen filling the OMR forms because they feared losing their candidature to what they believe to be an “unreliable” online system.
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