New Delhi: After facing severe criticism over the absurdly high cut-off lists, the Delhi University is in for some legal trouble. A group of students from Kerala have challenged the high cut-off lists of the varsity and its admission process in the Delhi High Court.
The petition alleges that the percentage of students from outside must not be deducted in the admission process. The HC has now issued a notice to the university and to the Kerala Higher Secondary Board. The next hearing of the petition is on July 6.
Several colleges of the university have announced the first cut-off list which is as high as 99 to 100 per cent. College of Vocational Studies and Indraprastha College for Women have set 100 per cent as its cut-off for the computer science programme for the general category students.
Moti Lal Nehru college has kept its cut-off for BCom Honors at 99.5%, Maiteyi college has kept the mark at 99 %for BCom, Hindu College has kept its cut-off at 98% for Economics and SRCC has kept its its cut off at 98.25% for Economics Honours.
Other colleges which have announced the ceiling at 99% include Delhi College of Arts and Commerce (DCAC), Atma Ram Sanatan Dharm (ARSD) college, Ram Lal Anand College, PGDAV college, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Science for Women for Computer Science. DCAC has kept its cut-off for studying Journalism Honours at 97.5%.
The varsity has received 3.7 lakh applications for a toal of 54,000 seats in the academic session 2015-16.
The dreadful cut-off rates have lead to a fierce debate over the relevance of illogical percentages every year. There has been demand to increase the total number seats in all colleges to accommodate more students and bring the cut off down.
In 2013, the then Union minister of state for human resources development Shashi Tharoor slammed the current admission system calling it "unidimensional” in nature. He said that the cut-offs have damaged the quality and variety of students passing out of Delhi University.
In 2011, the then worried Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah had tweeted that he is worried over the high marks required for admissions to colleges in the national capital. He said that he was happy that he finished college 20 years ago as the present cut-offs were "scary". "With these kinds of cut-off marks, I'd have been doing a correspondence course because I wouldn't have even gotten a 'pass course' admission," he said.
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