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1,000 more DU seats to open upNeha Pushkarna, TNN, Jul 19, 2010, 10.22am IST

NEW DELHI: There is still hope for Delhi University aspirants who missed out on making the cutoffs of their favourite colleges by a few marks.Colleges are inviting fresh applications, to fill up seats left vacant in OBC category this season. According to DU officials, about 10 to 15% of OBCseats may still be available at DU colleges to which aspirants can apply afresh. These seats will be reopened to all categories of students, includinggeneral, between August 6 and 16.

There were about 14,580 seats — 27% of 54,000 seats — reserved under OBC category in DU this year. "As per estimates, there may be more than1,000 OBC seats still vacant which will be available to students of all categories after August 6. Colleges will advertise for applications andadmissions will be given on merit," said deputy dean, students' welfare, Gurpreet Singh Tuteja.

Colleges like Kirori Mal and Hindu have already invited applications for admission to different courses, including popular BCom (honours). ThoughKMC is still working out the number of seats it has vacant, students can apply for a seat in the college by July 25. Vice-principal M C Nahar said,"There are still some withdrawals happening so we do not have the exact number of seats vacant. But a few OBC seats in commerce courses willdefinitely be converted."

He added, "We have called applicants to the college on July 30 to see how serious they are about admission. We will give preference to students who had applied during the sale and submission of forms from May 28 to June 11."

According to DU schedule, the main admission procedure has to be wrapped up by August 6 after which OBC seats can be allotted to aspirants

from other categories. All admissions should be over by August 16. At Hindu College, some OBC seats may still be available for conversion in BCom(honours), BA (honours) in sociology and history, BSc (honours ) in zoology, statistics and chemistry.

"While we have five OBC seats vacant in BCom (honours ), there are 11 seats in sociology , and one in chemistry. The cutoff for fresh admissions will be similar to our fifth cutoff announced earlier," said principal Vinay Kumar Srivastav. He added, "We will release names from the merit list of only as many candidates as the number of seats we have. For instance, the merit list for BCom (honours) will have only five candidates."

Aspirants waiting to get into Shri Ram College of Commerce via this method may be disappointed since the college has filled up its entire OBCquota this year. "We have admitted 37 students against a sanctioned strength of 33 in economics (honours) and 139 students against 139 seats inBCom (honours). We don't have any vacant seats for conversion now, though parents have been enquiring for about such a possibility," saidprincipal P C Jain.

According to Tuteja, students should not bank much on these seats. The number of seats will be limited and demand huge. He said, "Studentsshould not let go of other options, if available, to wait for conversion of vacant OBC seats. The competition for these seats is going to be stiff. Do not

mistake it for a backdoor entry since the eligibility criteria doesn't really get relaxed."

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