Anti-FYUP voices unite, grow louder

NEW DELHI: Even on Wednesday, scores of applicants from other states landed up at colleges for admission or information. June 25 would’ve been the second day of admissions if the original schedule had been followed. Word of the chaos in Delhi University hasn’t reached all parts of the country yet and at least some of the 1.45 lakh applicants from outside the capital are now affected.
“The administration is not helping us. We have no information about the admission process or the cutoffs. There are problems with train reservation as well,” says Pramod Gupta who has come from Varanasi. Bhuvnesh Pathak from Patna says that he is receiving no response from either the colleges or the university. “I am really tense about my admission and travelling from one city to another repeatedly horrifies me.”
Interestingly, Vishal Kadian, from Rohtak had not applied to DU because of FYUP. Now, that there of chances of going back to the three-year course, he’s come seeking admission. However, the registration process was over on June 16 and no one has yet said anything about re-registration.
Rashid Khan, an applicant from Delhi itself, had had applied online during the initial days of registration when the DU website was acting up. “I could not get a print of the application due to server problems. Later when I tried to log on they had shut down the system,” he says. There is, however, no one in DU to solve these problems now.
“I need a seat in DU whether FYUP is rolled back or not. The political chaos is causing us a lot of problems,” says Iti Dubey from Kanpur.
Even college principals are getting concerned about the delay and its impact on outstation candidates. They are not only unable to answer queries, they also stand to lose candidates.