New Delhi:
As expected, a number of sought after colleges of Delhi University closed admissions to the popular B Com (Hon) and Economics (Hons) courses for general category students after recording admissions in excess of sanctioned seats over the last four days. However, for OBC students seats were still available in almost all top colleges that brought out their second cut off lists on Monday.
The university said colleges have exercised "abundant caution" in declaring the second cut-off list and advised aspirants not to get discouraged as most colleges are expected to announce three more lists with lower cut-offs.
(Detailed list of cut-offs)
The Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) declared its admissions closed for both B Com and Economics honours after taking in 161 and 10 extra admissions in both these courses for the generalcategory. For the OBC category a second cut-off list was announced at 92 to 96 per cent in B Com(H) and 92.75 to 95.75 in Eco(H). Besides SRCC, the admissions in the general category in B Com (Hons) closed in Hindu college, Ramjas, Daulat Ran, Dyal Singh and Shaheed Bhagat Singh colleges, among others. The Economics (Hons) course was closed in Hindu, Miranda, Ramjas and Shaheed Bhagat Singh, among others.
Among the colleges that declare a second cut-off list for Commerce, Kirorimal put it at 95.5 to 96.75, while Sri Venkateshwar declared it at 95.5 to 97. Other colleges in this category were Gargi, Hansraj, and Lady Sri Ram.
In the Science stream, the popular Mathematics (Honours) course was also declared closed in some of the colleges, including Kirorimal, Miranda House, Hindu and Ramjas.
However, admissions were still open for this course in Hansraj which declared 94 per cent second cut off, in Lady Shri Ram (LSR) at 93.75 per cent and Sri Venkateshwara at 85 to 91 per cent. Admission to Physics (Honours) also closed after the first list in a number of colleges, including Kirorimal, Miranda House and Ramjas, but Hansraj and Hindu did come out with a second cut-off percentage of 95 and 95.66 respectively.
The colleges will take admissions under this 2nd list over the next four days from June 22 to June 25.