Motilal Nehru College saw a huge rush after it revised its cut-off for admission to B.Com (Honours) and B.A. Programme courses on Thursday evening.
The revision in the list, which led to a lot of tugging and pulling at the office counters, only added to the chaos the college was witness to on the first day of admissions. After the cut-off for B.Com (Honours) was revised to 95.5-97.5 percent from 95.5-99.5 per cent, the number of applicants increased to over 300. However, only about half of them were able to get their forms finalized. The cut-off for B.A. Programme, meanwhile, was revised from 72-82 percent to 82 percent.
On Thursday, the DU administration had pulled up the college for declaring cut-offs with a huge range. “Colleges had been asked to do away with stream-wise cut-offs from this year, but the cut-offs declared by Motilal Nehru College had a huge range, which is similar to stream-wise cut-offs. They were asked to revise their cut-offs,” said a DU official.
“They are distributing tokens properly but today the rush is a lot more. We have to wait for a long time before we get our numbers and it doesn’t look like we can get our admission done today. The administration is simply not handling this well,” said Suresh Sharma, who had come to the college with his son.
Many students, in fact, had to return home dejected owing to the crowd. “I thought about initiating my admission on Thursday but since they were sending many students back, I thought the process will be smoother today. But it is a lot worse,” said Sandhya Bhatnagar, an applicant.
The revision in the list added to the chaos seen at the college on the first day of admissions
