DU bars colleges from converting OBC seats into unreserved category

The notification says that no college will be allowed to admit general category students to seats left vacant in the OBC quota until the University issues a notification authorising them to do so. The University has asked those colleges which have not given the maximum allowed 10 per cent relaxation in admission cut-offs to OBC candidates to submit a sixth cut-off for OBC students to the registrar by 8 pm on 13 th July. The University will notify the sixth cut-off for OBC students on 14 th July.

Students will be admitted to colleges on 14 th and 15 th July based on the sixth cut-off list. If seats are still left vacant and the relaxation given in the sixth cutoff is below 10 percent,colleges have to prepare a seventh cut-off which will be released by the University on 17 th July.

Admissions based on the seventh cut-off will take place on 18 th and 19 th of July.

The conversion of OBC seats to unreserved seats,which was to take place after the 13 th of July had elicited protests from teacher and student bodies who had accused the University of not implementing 27 percent reservation for OBC candidates.

A day before admissions close,many colleges are usually still left with seats vacant in the OBC quota. While Shri Ram College of Commerce has filled up its OBC quota seats in B Com Honours and Economics Honours with a fifth cut-off,Hindu college and Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) still have vacant seats.

“On an average,we have six to ten OBC seats left to be filled in each course. The number is 11 for History Honours and two for Hindi,” said Dr. Kanika Khandelwal,Associate Professor,Department of Psychology at LSR.

At the Hindu college,15 to 20 OBC seats were left vacant overall when admissions closed for Tuesday evening,said,Dr. Anju Srivastava,Teacher-in-charge of the Department of Chemistry at the college.