Over 32,000 DU forms sold on day one; protests against FYUP

As many as 32,460 forms were sold at 18 designated centres on Monday while 2,345 online forms were submitted along with required fees. A total of 3,129 filled-up forms were received at the centres.

The university’s website on which the online centralised optical mark recognition (OMR) forms were available, crashed in the morning. The technical problem was not rectified till evening.

Long queues were witnessed at all the 18 centres where forms are being sold. Aspiring students along with their parents had to brave the hot sun to collect the forms.

There were also complaints about mismanagement and lack of basic facilities like drinking water at these centres.

“It is so hot, but there is no arrangement even for water for people standing in the queues,” Priyanka Sharma, who was standing in a queue at an application form centre in North Campus of the university, said.

A total of 54,000 seats under the University’s four year undergraduate programme are up for grabs. The last date for submission of the forms is June 16.

A number of student organisations held protests at the university campus against the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP).

Effigies of Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh were burnt by supporters of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at 14 centres demanding immediate rollback of FYUP.

Students and teachers also protested against reported replacement of the undergraduate degree programmes with diplomas and certificate courses in the School of Open Learning as UGC has raised objections about the dual degree status of the Honours degree programmes.