CUET: DU to admit 30% extra students under SC/ST category to fill maximums seats, says VC

Over 6.5 lakh admission applications have been received by the university, according to DU officials.

Delhi University will admit 20% "extra students" under unreserved and OBC categories and 30% in the SC/ST category to fill the maximum seats in undergraduate courses in the first round of counselling this year, Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh said on Thursday.

This will also help in filling the reserved seats which remain vacant throughout the year, Mr. Singh told PTI.

This year, the university will be offering 70,000 seats in undergraduate programmes across several colleges through the new Common University Entrance Test (CUET). Till last year, the university would release cut-offs based on the class 12 scores of students.

The CUET-UG, will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) from July 15 to August 10. The CUET (UG) 2022 has been scheduled for around 14,90,000 candidates, according to the National Testing Agency.

Over 6.5 lakh admission applications have been received by the university, according to DU officials.

In an interview to PTI, Mr. Singh said rules and regulations have been framed for counselling.

"In order to fill the maximum seats in the first round itself, in UR and OBC (other backward classes) we will take 20% extra admission and in the SC/ST category, 30% extra admission will be done," he said.