DU drops plan to add 5 extra seats With Dec 31 Last Day Of Admission, Few Colleges Showed Interest In Proposal imesgroup.com five supernumerary seats in each college in this admission season. Referring to the December 21noti- fication, registrar Vikas Gupta told TOl that only acoupleof collegeshad sentnamesof students. “Thelastdate of admission is December 31 and sin- ce there is no time left, we have deci- ded to not goahead withit,” headded. DU college principals have welco- med the decision. The principal of Hindu College, Anju Srivasta- va, said “it all happened in a shortnotice and colleges requ- ire time to discuss with their governing bodies (GBs).” Crea feat 2 1 Chuan) posts Most principals did not even approach their GBs, sta- ting that DU had not issued specific guidelines for the process. Manoj Khanna, prin- cipal of Ramjas College, said, “It isa welcome move as there was no clear- cut policy decision for us to comply either gave us it send us any theprocess.” any directive no! letter togoahead However, Guptaclaimed that the December 21 notification it- self was enough for the colleges and “all directions were there in ‘the order”, Ramanujan College principal S P Agarwal said “DU’s decision is right as it will stop unnecessary malpractices. Itwaslike a management quota that had no place in Delhi Uni- versity.” The colleges had sought guide- lines “because we did not wantthispro- cess in haste”, Agarwal pointed out. ‘The notification, signed by the re- gistrar, had stated that the principals would beallowed toadmitfivestudents over and above the allot seats, out of which 1 mighi suggest twonames. T! led the “college-univ sestudents weret \ the cutoff, Thi wasameasure du demicand on rea ciation treasurer Abha De\ - as