NEW DELHI: Delhi University’s undergraduate admission registration will begin on April 15 and end on May 7. For the first time ever, DU’s admission portal will be reopened for two weeks on May 20 for students to update their marks and course.Chairman of the admission committee, who is also the dean of students’ welfare, Rajeev Gupta, announced the tentative schedule on Friday. The registration process for DU’s undergraduate admission is starting early this year as compared to last year, when the process began in May.With the reopening of the admission portal on May 20, students will get a chance to correct their application form in case of any mistake. This has been a long-standing demand of students and the university had previously received several complaints regarding the issue. Delhi University conducts admissions for over 56,000 seats in 63 colleges affiliated to it. With DU implementing the EWS quota, more seats are expected to be added this year.The sports and extra-curricular activities trials will commence from May 20 this year, DU has announced. The university also said that ECA and sports admissions will be delinked from the admission cut-off list from this year.This year, there is good news for students who are expecting to change streams. Till last year, 5% used to be deducted from the cut-off, but from this year there will be a deduction of only 2%.The university is also trying to contact the Central Board of Secondary Education to use their database for getting students marksheets and certificate directly. If this is done, students’ data will be directly available to the university, which will reduce the number of certificates a student has to submit.Colleges have also been told to include representatives from various categories, such as SC, ST, OBC , EWS and students from the North-East, in their grievance committees.

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