Chaos on Day 1 of Delhi varsity online registration
Pratik Kumar NEW DELHI, Jun 02, 2016, DHNS
The Delhi University (DU) failed to provide a smooth take off for the online registration process for over 60,000 undergraduate seats in more than five dozen colleges on Wednesday.
The DU’s admission portal processed applications at a sluggish pace due to heavy traffic in the first few hours after the website opened for business at noon on the first day of the admission calendar.
Some 30,900 applicants registered within six hours of the admission portal’s launch.
Until last year, the university invited both online and offline registrations. This year, registration for admission is only online.
The varsity’s website in times of heavy traffic flashed a message saying those trying to register should keep “patience” because “a very large number of students are expected to visit the website”.
DU also advised admission seekers not to “wait for the last day for online registration and registration fee payment”.
Due to unresponsive helpline numbers, students reached the Dean Students’ Welfare office to resolve their queries.
Complicated processRakhi Singh, an applicant, told DH that she found the registration process complicated. DU requires applicants to upload their photographs, signatures, self-attested ID proof and self-attested class X certificates.
One of the volunteers at the varsity’s only help desk in North Campus said the admission seekers are facing difficulties in uploading their documents, as they have to be within specified dimensions.
For instance, the scanned signatures should not exceed the 50 KB.
Earlier on Wednesday, two student welfare officials conducted the counselling session for admission seekers.
The queries ranged from calculation of best-four percentage to the best college for a particular course.
The DU authorities said the sessions will continue till June 11.
Is Mathematics compulsory for students enrolling in BA (Hons) Economics? Will DU treat legal studies and mass media studies as academic subjects while computing the best of four subjects? Is there any relaxation in cut-off for girl students? These were some of the questions asked by students during the session.
Dean of Students’ Welfare J M Khurana said the university received nearly three lakh online and offline registrations last year.
The DU’s admission portal processed applications at a sluggish pace due to heavy traffic in the first few hours after the website opened for business at noon on the first day of the admission calendar.
Some 30,900 applicants registered within six hours of the admission portal’s launch.
Until last year, the university invited both online and offline registrations. This year, registration for admission is only online.
The varsity’s website in times of heavy traffic flashed a message saying those trying to register should keep “patience” because “a very large number of students are expected to visit the website”.
DU also advised admission seekers not to “wait for the last day for online registration and registration fee payment”.
Due to unresponsive helpline numbers, students reached the Dean Students’ Welfare office to resolve their queries.
Complicated processRakhi Singh, an applicant, told DH that she found the registration process complicated. DU requires applicants to upload their photographs, signatures, self-attested ID proof and self-attested class X certificates.
One of the volunteers at the varsity’s only help desk in North Campus said the admission seekers are facing difficulties in uploading their documents, as they have to be within specified dimensions.
For instance, the scanned signatures should not exceed the 50 KB.
Earlier on Wednesday, two student welfare officials conducted the counselling session for admission seekers.
The queries ranged from calculation of best-four percentage to the best college for a particular course.
The DU authorities said the sessions will continue till June 11.
Is Mathematics compulsory for students enrolling in BA (Hons) Economics? Will DU treat legal studies and mass media studies as academic subjects while computing the best of four subjects? Is there any relaxation in cut-off for girl students? These were some of the questions asked by students during the session.
Dean of Students’ Welfare J M Khurana said the university received nearly three lakh online and offline registrations last year.
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