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Few OBC students gain admission after first list

NEW DELHI: If early indications are anything to go by, few candidates from the Other Backward Classes have gained admission to different colleges of Delhi University since the admission process got under way since last Friday.

Considering that the University received as many as 10,400 applications from students belonging to the OBCs, including about 5,800 from Delhi alone, this comes as a surprise.

“We got a lot of applications from the OBCs for different courses, the maximum being for B. Com. (Honours). But so far, we have admitted only two students, one for Physics (Hons) and the other for Computer Science (Hons),” said Hans Raj College Principal S. R. Arora.

At Miranda House and Gargi College, there have been four and seven OBC admissions, respectively, as per the first cut-off list. So far, Hindu College has received five students under the OBC quota, while Maitreyi College has admitted three students in that category.

“A lot of OBC students had applied. It is possible that they went to other colleges or did not need the quota at all having met the eligibility criteria for the general category itself,” said Gargi College Principal Meera Ramachandran.

However, some Principals feel they will have to further relax the cut-off percentage for OBC candidates in the second cut-off list. In the first cut-off list, the relaxation in the eligibility conditions for the OBCs was between 1 and 5 per cent in most courses compared with that of the general category.

“The cut-offs will have to be lowered a little more than what was done in the first list. Even if we decide not to bring out a second cut-off list for general category students in some courses, we will have to put up one for OBC candidates,” said a Principal.

A senior University official said more OBC candidates are likely to come after the second and the third cut-off lists are announced, since there are more average performers in the OBC applications received.

Meanwhile, there are some colleges like Shri Ram College of Commerce that have already admitted 22 OBC students so far. The University has reserved nearly 5,000 seats for the OBCs from this academic year to accommodate the quota.

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