DU tells colleges to put admission details online

In a move to minimise chances of fake admissions, DU has asked colleges to adhere to its directive of submitting admission details such as the common pre-admission form (OMR) numbers, class 12 scores and reservation benefits under different quotas, if any, claimed by the students who met the cut-off eligibility criteria this year.

According to senior DU administration officials, the directive was issued on Monday.  
Mandatory transparency measures were thrust upon colleges after the varsity administration felt it was inundated with allegations that many colleges gave “backdoor” entries.

Last week, a professor of DU’s Swami Shraddhanand College had alleged that his principal was involved in an admission fraud that involved admitting students through extra-curricular activities (ECA) quota, even without them appearing for the common sports trial. However, the accused principal, Praveen Garg, had then refuted the allegations calling it “baseless”.

As per the Delhi University administration, several cases of alleged fake admissions were reported to the varsity since it asked its constituent colleges to admit fresh batch of undergraduate students. Some complaints even pertain to securing an admission through a forged OMR sheet, caste certificate or mark sheet.

Jaswinder Singh, principal of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, confirmed: “The colleges have received communication from the university administration. We are taking all measures to plug loopholes in the admission process.”

A senior DU administration official told Deccan Herald that colleges have been asked to put out admission details on their website so that public scrutiny could be invited.
The university has received complaints that certain colleges have given admission based on “tinkered” OMR forms, which have new course options allegedly filled in afterwards.

“Our intention is to cross-check all complaints. One such student had filled in Political Science later,” the official said, showing a student’s common pre-admission form to elucidate his argument.

With police cracking down on a fake admission racket involving at least 22 fake admissions, including an admission in Hindu College, the university administration on Thursday said it is prerogative of individual college to handle fake admissions.

“It is the job of the colleges concerned to make sure all admissions are in proper order. University can only issue guidelines, it can’t intervene unless colleges or the police ask for university to help, in which case the university can set up an inquiry committee to look into the matter,” another senior DU official said.

But despite the police claim, the Hindu College principal Anju Srivastava said, “The college had a seamless admission process this year.”  

Earlier in the day, police arrested four men, including a student of Shri Aurobindo College, and claimed that it busted a racket guaranteeing admission in DU colleges on the basis of fake documents.

The admission process for the 2015-16 is still underway and nearly 70,000 students have enrolled themselves so far. DU has recently announced schedule for its eighth, ninth and tenth cut-off lists, according to which admissions will close on August 12.