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Evening college may go the morning way

Lakshmi B. Ghosh

Teg Bahadur Khalsa College awaiting official nod

NEW DELHI: Having changed the very concept of evening colleges in Delhi University, Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College is now all set to become the Capital's first evening college to go the morning way.

A change that would mean 2,000 more seats in the University's morning college category, Khalsa will also be renamed the Guru Nanak Khalsa College with the transformation.

While the college has decided to keep the news low-key till it receives the official go-ahead "on paper" from the University Grants Commission (UGC), the college prospectus for admission will mention the "likelihood" of the college becoming a morning one.

The proposal for changing into a morning college has already been passed by the University's highest decision-making bodies -- the Academic Council and the Executive Council.

Perhaps the only evening college in Delhi University that has its own separate building, Khalsa has been operating from its Karol Bagh campus since 1973. With a new time-table coming into place two years ago, the University's evening colleges had faced a problem with regard to their timings. The class timings of morning colleges had spilled over to the late afternoon slots, making it difficult for many evening colleges.

With a building of its own, Khalsa -- one of the few co-ed evening colleges in the city -- started its classes at 1 p.m., making it more of an afternoon rather than an evening college. Nearly 1,800 students were admitted to the college last year and the college says it will increase its intake to 2,000 or a little more to accommodate more students.

"The idea of turning it into a morning college had in fact come from the UGC. Since we have the infrastructure in place, we thought it would be a good idea as it would help many students. Our students have been performing extremely well, with the last couple of years seeing our students figure among the University toppers in various subjects. In fact, even our sports teams have done extremely well,'' says the Khalsa College Principal, Harmeet Singh.

But students needs not worry about a high cut-off just as yet. "Our cut-offs will not be the same as that of the other Khalsa morning. While our intake has been around 1,800, we are planning to increase it to around 2,000 as we will be able to accommodate more students in the coming months", he said.

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