By IANS,
New Delhi : After a dismal show in the first three days, a record number of application forms were sold to disabled students Tuesday in Delhi University (DU) in a single day in seven years.
The university sold 73 forms Tuesday, said an official involved in the admission process for the disabled students.
“It is for the first time in the last seven years that 73 application forms for disabled students have been sold in a single day. Along with the Delhi University staff, 17 student volunteers are involved in the process,” an university official told IANS.
Sale of application forms for admissions to undergraduate courses in DU began May 28 and will be on until June 11.
According to officials, on the first day the number of application forms sold to disabled students was four, on the second day it was 15 and on the third day it was 56. With Tuesday’s addition, the total number of forms sold is 148.
Last year the total number of forms sold to disabled students was 350.
The form for disabled students is different from the one the others have to fill in to apply to the varsity.
Unlike filling up circles against one’s choice of course and college in the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) forms, the forms for the disabled students simply requires them to give seven choices of course and college that they would like to apply for.