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All Delhi roads lead to the University

Parul Sharma

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HOUSE FULL: Admission seekers occupy every inch of available space on the Delhi University campus on Monday. -

NEW DELHI: The annual admission rush to secure a seat in Delhi University got under way in a big way on Monday with sale and receipt of the common pre-admission forms starting at 16 information centres across the Capital. By the end of Day One, as many as 27,610 forms for various under-graduate courses were sold, while 800 were submitted to the authorities.

Admission seekers came out in huge numbers to purchase the forms. Most of them were accompanied by friends and cousins; some came with their parents.

Smriti Chopra, Shalini Sethi and Ashima Setia, all residents of Uttam Nagar in West Delhi, came together to buy the forms. “We will be applying to North Campus colleges because the Delhi Metro rail connectivity is good. Also, the North Campus has its own charm,” they said.

No sooner had they bought the forms, several students began filling them up in right earnest under the guidance of friends, family members and relatives.

“I will be applying for Political Science (Hons), Psychology (Hons) and English (Hons). Since my sister is already conversant with the admission process, I want to complete the form and submit it today itself,” said Naina Sachdeva, accompanied by her elder sister.

Gwalior resident Shyam Gunjan reached Delhi by a morning train on Monday to pick up his form. Sitting on the lawns of the Arts Faculty on the North Campus, Shyam and his father wanted to submit the form quickly as they had to catch an evening train back home.

However, in their hurry to submit the form the same day, several students did not even read the information bulletin properly and ended up buying more than one form as they filled up the first one incorrectly. “I got my cousin along to help me in the admission process. I knew where to get the forms from as she had gone through the same routine last year. But I was so anxious that I made a mistake while filling the form!” said Akanksha Baisoya.

“We bought another form and now my cousin refuses to let me fill this one. She has taken over from me,” she added.

M. Ibrahim and Sameer Aggarwal had come to pick up forms for their siblings.

Several admission seekers appeared clueless as they went round asking for directions to the School of Open Learning, or venues for registration in the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes categories.

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