DU tug-of-war on counselling

Sonia Sarkar / TNN / May 16, 2007, 03:34 IST

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With the DU admission process inching closer, setting up of counselling centres to dispense centralised application forms have become a bone of contention between the students' union and colleges.

NEW DELHI: With the Delhi University all set to start the admission process for various under-graduate courses in next 15 days, setting up of counselling centres to dispense centralised application forms have become a bone of contention between the students’ union and colleges.
On one hand, the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) has started training it counsellors to guide the new entrants and on other, the colleges have said that they will not allow DUSU members in the premises as they mislead new entrants with wrong informations.
From a 60-page colourful information bulletin to trained counsellors, the DUSU has started the preparation to woo the university aspirants. "The university information bulletin doesn’t carry detail informations about the entrance tests in colleges, combination of courses, extra-curricular activities and sports in specific colleges, which aspirants look for. However, we will come up with a handy bulletin carrying all the necessary information and will be given to applicants free of cost in all 17 centres, where the centralised forms will be available," said DUSU president Amrita Dhawan.
She added, "We will train our counsellors in special sessions with the dean students welfare, SK Vij and then send them to the centres to help the applicants in filling the application forms." DUSU might be planning big to woo the new entrants but colleges are in no mood to buzz. "We will not allow any DUSU member to distribute information bulletin or counsel applicants in the premises, as they add to chaos and confusion. Our faculty and non-teaching staff will be there to guide the aspirants," said Kavita Bhatia, acting principal of Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College (ARSD). ARSD is one of the 17 centres to distribute centralised optical mark reader (OMR) application forms.

Rajdhani College principal V Laxmi Pandit said, "DUSU can put up their kiosks outside the college premises and help anyone they want to but we will have our own arrangement to guide the aspirants."
Some colleges, however, are yet to take a stand. "We will discuss these issues with the vice-chancellor in the impending admission meeting next week and then decide," said PGDAV college acting principal P K Jain. The DUSU members, nevertheless, are also planning to start feeder bus services from Delhi Vishwavidyalaya metro station to several north campus colleges and from Dhaula Kuan to Moti Bagh, near south campus.
The forms will be available from June 1-15 in 17 centres including colleges like KMC, Deshbandhu, ARSD, Gargi, Zakir Hussain and many other colleges.
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