Admissions to Delhi University (DU) are due to start in less than a month and the premier varsity is going all out this time to help nervous college aspirants and their equally harried parents with information and counselling. What’s more, even existing students are about to find the going easy thanks to e-learning that will complement classroom teaching.

To answer the hundreds of queries that students generally have at this time, the university officials launched a helpline earlier this month.

“Right from the start, we have been receiving more than 150 calls a day. Initially, the phone line was open Monday to Friday, but because of the overwhelming response we decided to keep it operational on Saturdays, which is normally a holiday in the university,” said Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, deputy dean, students welfare, in the university.

Some of the calls have been from as far as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, besides from the northeast and southern India.

According to Tuteja, the helpline (011-27662507, 27662508), is manned by a panel of 17 faculty members and student counsellors. They answer queries ranging from which course one should opt for or which college is good for which subject or whether the admission form for accommodation facilities can be filled by a relative.

Some of the university’s ex-students have also come to the rescue of those not satisfied with the information given in the university’s website and through the helpline.

A nine per cent OBC quota is to be implemented this year, leading in turn to an 18 per cent increase in the total number of seats at the university.

* A total of 1,60,414 students have appeared for the Class XII CBSE exams from Delhi alone. And a majority of these are expected to vie for the 42,000 seats available at DU

* Undergraduate admissions will be conducted in four streams: Arts, Commerce, Mathematical Sciences and Applied Sciences

* The total number of undergraduate colleges: 69

* In 2007, the total number of seats at the undergraduate level was 35,000

* This year’s 18 per cent increase means an additional 7,000 seats, increasing the total to 42,000

* Break up of seats are as follows: 27,500 for General, 6,296 for SC, 3,148 for ST and 5,000 for OBC categories. Nine per cent will be reserved for the OBC, 22.5 per cent for SC/STs, three per cent for physically challenged and 5 per cent for the children/widows/wives of soldiers killed or disabled in action.

* Another 5 per cent seats will be reserved for foreign students.

* The Dean of Student Welfare has declared that this year, applicants under the categories of the physically challenged and children of war widows will be accommodated in all four broader categories.

* In 2007, every 100 seats were distributed in the following manner: 78 General, 18 SC, eight ST and none for the OBC

This year, there will be 18 more seats for every hundred seats: 78 General, 18 SC, nine ST and 13 OBC

* The number of teachers, including regulars and ad hoc, at the Delhi University is close to 8,000

* The percentage of female teachers stands at 57 per cent

* The percentage of ad hoc teachers stands at 20 per cent

* The university puts the student-teacher ratio at 12:1; hence the increase in the number of teachers should be 10-15 per cent.

To read the complete Information visit:
www.du.ac.in

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