DU panel recommends common entrance test for admissions
The Hindu
‘The system will provide equitable opportunity to applicants’
A nine-member panel constituted by Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh has recommended that the varsity hold a common entrance test to ensure ‘substantial objectivity’ in the admission process, amid a controversy erupting over the high number of cent per cent scorers from the Kerala Board.
The Committee formed under the chairmanship of Dean (Examinations) D.S. Rawat was supposed to examine the reasons for over and under admissions to undergraduate courses, study the board-wise distribution of admissions in all undergraduate courses, suggest alternative strategies for optimal admissions in undergraduate courses and examine OBC admissions with reference to the non-creamy layer status.
Everyone talks about the Airport Metro, but one look at the pillars and completion seems nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, a faster, cheaper, roomier alternative called the Suburban Rail Airport Corridor is finally getting off the drawing board. This dedicated corridor with its specialised coaches will link the airport to vast stretches of Bengaluru, where the metro connection is still years away.