Students go for printed Delhi University forms over virtual option

On the first day of Delhi University's undergraduate admission for 2012-13, students seemed to have preferred the printed centralized forms over the online option introduced this year.

A large number of students gathered at the 22 venues across the city, braving the heat on Monday, and bought 30,250 forms, with Arts Faculty at North Campus selling as many as 4,100 forms. DU witnessed 18,000 online registrations as well.

Long queues were seen at centres like Arts Faculty and Miranda House in North Campus, ARSD and deputy dean, students' welfare office, in South Campus; Gargi College and several post offices from 8 in the morning, two hours before the sale started. Gargi College, Ashok Vihar and New Delhi GPO ran out of forms and had to fetch more copies later. Delhi GPO fell short of the prospectus and asked aspirants to wait for it, leading to a huge crowd gathering inside.

While the colleges and other DU venues sold 15,500 forms, the 12 post offices sold 14,750 forms. "There is a greater rush than before," said Dinesh C Varshney, deputy dean, students' welfare, South Campus.

At Gargi College, aspirants started queuing outside from early morning and all forms were sold within an hour. "We had got around 1,000 forms in the first lot, but that got over within an hour of the counters opening at 10am. We got a second lot by 12.30pm and the distribution continued till 1.30pm and we could distribute around 500 more forms," said vice-principal Shashi Tyagi.

Over 700 forms were sold in the first two hours at ARDS while over 1,000 forms were sold at South Campus. Another 420-odd forms for the SC/ST category were also sold at the campus. A large number of outstation aspirants were seen queuing at North Campus.

Aspirants at South Campus was happy with the counselling facility available there. "Most of the students are enquiring about the best college and the best course available. A number of queries for English and commerce have been seen today," said Brij Lal, supervising officer, admissions, ARSD College.