SOL offline admission no smooth affair

Students agreed. “I took admission from the Azadpur branch of IDBI, but no one was there to help me. I wanted to ask when I would get books and when classes would start. The bank told me to go to the SOL campus but when I went there, they sent me to the bank again,” Atul, a student, said.

He added that he wanted to take offline admission because he thought it would be more reliable but didn’t realise that he would have to pay Rs 100 for the prospectus. “I paid Rs 50 in regular DU colleges because I belong to the SC category,” he said.

SOL officials, however, claimed the admission process was smoother than before and that the majority of students faced no problems.

“Firstly, there are only 100-odd students who have taken offline admission in BA Programme. The rest (roughly 9,900) have chosen the online medium. The prospectus is also available for free online so I don’t see a problem. Moreover, since our institution caters to EWS (Economically Weaker Section) students, we refund the prospectus money for BPL (Below Poverty Line) students,” SOL director Prof C S Dubey said.

He said allowing admissions in bank branches was done to decentralise the process and make it more student-friendly.

Offline admission is available only for BA Programme in SOL.