DU cut-off marks controversial, students disheartened

As Delhi University is the most prestigeous, meritorious and brilliant students always aspire to take admission into the colleges under it. As its first cut-off marks announced by one of the best colleges is 100 per cent, it has sent shock waves among Delhi students in particular and outside in general. Though Union Human Rasources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal has promptly taken notice of it and described the announcement of first cut-off marks by the colleges as irrational and assuaged the nervous guardians and shocked students, he will have to take special initiative. The students are in disbelief. Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh has said that it is a cautionary approach to fix high cut-off marks in the first list. But he must take care of students' concerns in the second cut-off list. It is also correct to say that in the announcement of high cut -off marks practice has been followed. It is also a fact that scoring of high marks by the students year after year has shot up the cut-off marks. But keeping in view the increasing number of students, the premier university like Delhi must follow the middle path so that large number of deligent students in different streams could be accomodated.If HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is so serious, he must immediately persuade the authorities concerned to increase the number of seats for students in Delhi University colleges, and alongwith that he must also manage to mobilise his ministry to develop the infrasructural facility there to accomodated the increased number of students. But by increasing the seats in colleges, the standard of education of the university for which it commands respect and attraction of the student community and parents all over the country must not be compromised at any cost.It has also become necessary to increase the number of seats for students in view of the growing trend of scoring high marks by them in class 12th.Taking care of the plight of students, Delhi University authorities are advised to take as many brilliant and meritorious students as possible into DU colleges to make them more glamorous, attractive and education-centric.