Over 2.38 lakh students register on DU’s website for admissions to undergraduate courses; first cut-off list to be out on 20 June

New Delhi: Over 2.38 lakh students have registered on the Delhi University’s website for admissions in undergraduate courses till Thursday, the varsity said. [caption id=“attachment_1663345” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. AFP[/caption] The university started registrations on 30 May for undergraduate courses and the admission process will end on 14 June. The first cut-off list will be released on 20 June, second on 25 June and the third to be released on 29 June. The fourth and fifth cut-off lists will be out on 4 July and 9 July respectively. Till now, 2,38,741 students have registered and 1,35,030 have made payments, the varsity said. Out of the total number of registrations, 84,937 aspirants are from the unreserved category, 24,125 from other backward classes, 19,349 from scheduled castes, 3,964 from scheduled tribes and 2,655 from the economically weaker section (EWS), it said. On Thursday, the Delhi University organised its open day session at Maharaja Agrasen College where student asked questions about how they have to procure the EWS certificate. They were told by the officials that an acknowledgment receipt from the government authorities would suffice for now. [caption id=“attachment_6769001” align=“alignnone” width=“824”]  A schedule of the admission process to Delhi University’s undergraduate courses.[/caption] From the day the open days started on 31 May, admission officials have been flooded with queries about how one gets EWS certificate or how the government officials were unaware about it. Delhi government had said that they have notified various SDMs, who have to issue the certificates about the issue. This year, the varsity has effected a 10 per cent increase in seats for the EWS and there will be a rise of close to 6,000 seats, taking the total number of seats for undergraduate courses to 62,000.