Students who have excelled in sports in school will have a quota in Delhi University and a concession/relaxation in academic merit of not more than 15% will be given to them on the last relevant cut-off list, provided they fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria.
Each college has a provision of not more than 5% sports quota/ECA quota subject-wise and colleges are free to decide the actual number of seats to be filled on sports basis keeping in view the facilities available and the requirement of the college.
This year, colleges have already listed their requirement for students to be selected under sports quota. The entire list can be found in the bulletin of information.
“For example, a cricketer who is a bowler having high competency may not get a college of his/her choice if that particular college is only looking for a batsman that year,” said a university official.
Two categories
The university informed that the admission on the basis of sports will be based on two categories — super category in which direct admission without sports trial will be allowed and sports trial category.
In the super category, sportspersons who have represented India competition recognised and funded by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will be given direct admission without sports trial.
However, they will be given admission where the college has listed a requirement for that game/sport.
In admission on the basis of sports trial, a maximum 40 marks will be reserved for merit/ participation certificates and different level certificates will account for different marks. sports certificate of invitational/ memorial/ open/ prize money league/ ranking competitions will not be considered.
“Applicants are required to upload self-attested copies of three merit/participation sports certificate. However, only the highest merit/ participation sports certificate will be considered for marking,” said the university.
Students while filling the application form online will have to upload their certificates according to the prescribed file size limit in the sports category registration page.
The applicant can upload three merit/ participation sports certificates. Applicants can apply for as many sports as they like but there is a fee of ₹100 for each game/ sport in which an applicant wants to be considered for admission under sports quota. Merit/participation sports certificate of preceding three years will be considered.
A maximum of 60 marks will be given for performance in sports trial. The university said that all students who have taken admission via sports quota will have to submit an undertaking at the time of admission stating that he/ she will play for the college and university during their undergraduate programmes of study.
