NEW DELHI: Despite the cutthroat fight for admission to Delhi University, many courses haven’t evoked interest among aspirants. Journalism courses, whether the English or Hindi programmes or the five-year integrated course, have failed to enthuse students and many seats in the unreserved category are yet to be filled. Surprisingly, seats in the once popular computer science (Hons) too have gone abegging in colleges offering it. Many seats offered for Punjabi and Sanskrit are also yet to find takers. Admission for the five-year integrated course in journalism used to be through the Delhi University Entrance Test. This year, when admissions were based on the Common University Entrance Test, 22 seats are yet to be filled after the first allocation of colleges and courses. According to A DU official, the low interest could perhaps be because this is a self-financing, or fully paid, course. However, even honours seats in English journalism and Hindi patrakarita have not been grabbed by aspirants. Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College and Aditi Mahavidyalaya have 13 vacancies each in the Hindi patrakarita course in the unreserved category for which they have, respectively, 22 and 20 total seats. Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College has 19 unfilled seats among its 31 and Ram Lal Anand, six in its 10. English journalism is offered in seven colleges. The seats have been grabbed entirely only in Kamala Nehru and Lady Shri Ram. At Maharaja Agrasen College, 11 of its 23 seats in the unreserved category found no takers. Faring worse than journalism, the BSc home science course ended up with the highest vacancies after the first round of allotment. At the Institute of Home Economics, 30 of the 123 seats and at Lady Irwin College, 37 of 111 seats for unreserved students remain unclaimed. Computer science (Hons), offered in 20 colleges, interested aspirants fully only in two colleges. At Keshav Mahavidyalaya, 14 of 46 seats are vacant and at Ramanujan, 10 of the 23 seats remain unfilled. The lack of interest in Punjabi and Sanskrit has also left teachers worried. “We can only hope that the seats are taken in the next allocation round,” said a Sanskrit teacher. DU will announce the second round of college-course allocations on Sunday.
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