Delhi University has roped in DU Community Radio, which will be available from June 2 on 90.4 FM to help students who are either willing to join the University or those who are awaiting their admission lists. Admissions in DU will start from June 2.

The next time you switch on your radio near Delhi University, get ready to be greeted by admission details. The university, in a bid to make its admission process more wide-ranging, has roped in the DU community radio for disseminating information. The radio, available on 90.4 frequency on the FM bandwidth, can be accessed anywhere in a radius of 10 km around the North Campus.

This unique facility will be of great help to the students, who are either willing to join the university or those who are awaiting their admission lists.

Said Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, deputy dean of students welfare, ‘‘The radio will start relaying a special one-hour programme on DU under-graduate admissions from next week onwards. It’s a follow-up on the Open Days that will take place in colleges from May 24.” The open days, which are basically a way for aspiring students to get to know about the courses and colleges they are interested in, will be a week-long programme.

The Open Day, which is basically a way for aspiring students to get to know about the courses and colleges they are interested in, will be a week-long program.

“We are also planning to have a special program for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) students, which may start an hour earlier from the regular session on the Open Day. Since their queries are different, a need was felt for a separate module,” added Tuteja.

Starting from Khalsa College on the North Campus on May 24, the next Open Day is on May 26 in DDU College, followed by Keshavpuram College the next day. For students in east Delhi, counselling will happen in Shyam Lal Anand College in Shahdara and Vivekananda College in Vivek Vihar on May 30 and 31, respectively. There will also be a special two-day Open Day in the SP Jain Centre on May 28 and 29.

The University of Delhi announces the schedule for admission to a majority of
Under-Graduate Courses :
• B.A (Hons.)
• B.A. Programme
• B.Com (Hons.)
• B.Com
• B.Sc. (Hons.)
• B.Sc. Physical Sciences
• B.Sc. Life Sciences
• B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences
• B.Sc. Applied Life Sciences
• B.Sc.(Gen) Mathematical Sciences
• B. Applied Sciences (Hons.)
• B.Sc.(Hons.) Computer Science
• B.Sc. Home Science
These courses are available as
• Full time courses in various constituent and affiliated Colleges of the
University;
• Some of these courses are also available in Non-formal stream in:
• School of Open Learning
• Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board

Application to Under-Graduate Courses in various Constituent & Affiliated Colleges of the University:
Application for admission to the Colleges can be submitted from June 2 to June 16, 2008. The University has set up following fifteen Admission Information Centres located in different parts of the city for sale and receipt of Common Pre-Admission Form and Information Bulletin for 2008-2009.

North Delhi
1. Office of the Dean Students’ Welfare, Main Campus, 27667092
University of Delhi
2. Kirorimal College, Main Campus 27667861
University of Delhi
.3. Faculty of Arts, Main Campus 27667981
University of Delhi
South Delhi
4. Office of the Deputy Dean Students’ Welfare 24119832
South Delhi Campus, Benito Juarez Marg,
5. Deshbandhu College,Kalkaji, 26439565
6. A.R.S.D. College, Dhaula Kuan, 24113436
7. Gargi College, Siri Fort Road 26494544
8. P.G.D.A.V. College, Nehru Nagar, Ring Road, 29832092
9. College of Vocational studies, Sheikh Sarai 29258544
East Delhi
10. Shyam lal College, Shahdara 22324086
11. Vivekananda College, Vivek Vihar 22150100
12. Maharaja Agrasen College, Mayur Vihar, 22716039
Phase – I
West Delhi
13. Rajdhani College, Raja Garden 25930752
14. Bharati College, C-4, Janak Puri 25547328
Central Delhi
15. Zakir Husain College, Ajmere Gate 23233420

Common Pre-admission Form along with the Information Bulletin 2008-2009 will be available from June 2 to 16, 2008. The Bulletin of Information will also be available in Hindi. A candidate shall indicate on a single form the courses
and colleges where he/she is seeking admission. The completed form is to be submitted at any of the above designated Centres of the University irrespective from where he/she has obtained. The Information Bulletin will contain the
following information:

(i) Specimen Copy of the Common Pre-Admission Form
(ii) Information about courses available in all DU Colleges
(iii) Last year’s cut-off percentage in different Colleges & different courses
(iv) General Instructions about filling the form
(v) Courses offered by various Colleges
(vi) Map indicating the location of Colleges
(vii) List of courses for which the Common Pre-Admission Form is not
applicable

The University will compile and scan all data collected from Pre-Admission Form. The University shall provide to Colleges, the lists of candidates seeking admission College specific & Course specific.

The first admission list will be announced by the Colleges on Thursday,
June 26, 2008 at 10.00 a.m.

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

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