New Delhi: University of Delhi has allowed 11 colleges to admit students on the basis of Class XII marks, opening a parallel admission route in 80 college-course combinations. The move comes as several colleges reported more than 50% vacancy despite multiple rounds of admission through CUET and the admission cycle nearing conclusion.The list shows that the vacancies are particularly widespread in language and traditional humanities programmes, but are not restricted to them. Kalindi College, for instance, has opened admissions through Class XII marks in three programmes — BA (Hons) Hindi and Sanskrit and BSc (Hons) physics. Lakshmibai College has done so for BA (Hons) Sanskrit, while Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce has opened the route for BA (Hons) Punjabi.The largest number of programmes are covered at Bhagini Nivedita College (22), followed by Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women (16) and Aditi Mahavidyalaya (14). Bhagini Nivedita has vacancies across BA (Hons) Hindi, history and political science, BCom, BSc (Hons) home science and physics, besides several BA programme combinations. Aditi has opened the route for BCom and BCom (Hons), BA (Hons) geography, Hindi journalism and social work, besides multiple multidisciplinary BA combinations.At SPM, the 16 programmes include BA (Hons) Hindi and Sanskrit and BSc (Hons) mathematics, besides combinations involving economics, geography, history, political science, philosophy, Sanskrit, music and computer applications. PGDAV (Evening) and Vivekanand College have also opened admissions for BSc (Hons) mathematics, while Rajdhani has vacancies across six programmes, including BSc (Hons) physics and two BSc physical science programmes.DU registrar Vikas Gupta told TOI, “These colleges were allowed to take admissions through Class XII marks because more than 50% of their seats remained vacant.” He said the university has followed the policy for some time and had also allowed such admissions in previous years, but only after completion of the regular admission rounds. “This time we have allowed them to take admission early on to ensure full optimisation of seats,” he said.Under the parallel system, students who did not appear for CUET can also apply, while those who appeared but could not secure a seat through their CUET scores get another opportunity.
