Jamia comes up with admission-related query helpline

Jamia Millia Islamia offered quick solutions to problems faced by applicants while filling up on-line admission forms. Several general queries have also been entertained. The helpline team was headed by Dr. Mansaf Alam from the Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia who led a team of Jamia employees. 

This academic year, Jamia Millia Islamia had introduced On-Line Application Forms for admission to all courses and received a record 1, 49,148 applications for over 6,000 seats. This is almost a 25% increase in the number of applications received last year.

The Admission Help Desk in Jamia Millia Islamia addressed over 47,000 queries pertaining to admissions 2015-16 until May 4, 2015 on various communication platforms as per details given below:  

1. Landline - Over 22,000 queries                                                                 
2. Mobile - 10,134 queries                                                                     
3. Took direct/manual assistance of the Help Desk -  Over 7,000 queries
4. E-mail - 5,281                                                                       
5. Whatsapp - 2,945

About Jamia Millia Islamia:                                                            

The University was established in 1920 at Aligarh in United Provinces, India. It became a central university by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988. In Urdu language, Jamia means University and Millia means National. It offers integrated education from nursery to research in specialized areas and is a saga of dedication, conviction and vision of a people who worked against all odds and saw it growing step by step. In 1962, the University Grants Commission declared the Jamia a ‘deemed to be University’.

Source: Mohd Daniyal, click4college Specialist