Amid continuing admissions to the Delhi University (DU) colleges in various undergraduate (UG) courses under the second cut-off list, many students seem to be shifting their focus to colleges other than the popular or major ones since the latter have run out of seats now.

About 36, 850 students have taken admission to various UG courses in DU colleges under the first and second cut-off lists so far. Altogether, the DU colleges account for about 60, 000 seats in their UG courses.

With Saturday being the last day of admissions for the aspirants under the second cut-off list, various DU colleges appeared to be witnessing students and their parents getting worked up in queues over the hostel allotment issue and payment problems.

Shreya Rawat, who enrolled for BA Programme (Political Science and Sociology) at Venkateswara College, complained about the lack of hostel facility in the DU.

“I do not know about other colleges but here they just have approximately 24 seats for hostel and that too only one student from each department can get the hostel. The selection of student depends on the marks or percentage, whosoever has the highest percentage in the department will get the hostel,” Shreya said.

Some students were struggling with the payment link provided by the DU, apprehending that their admissions might get cancelled in the event of any technical failures in this regard.

Harshit Wadhwa, a candidate from Chandigarh, said, “I got enrolled in a college yesterday morning and was expecting to leave for Chandigarh with my parents soon after making the payment. It’s a link that we are supposed to receive on the DU’s student portal to make the payment. And its past 12.30 pm, yet we have not received any link for payment and are waiting to reach the officials for further details.”

Commenting on this matter, a DU official said, “Usually the students do not check their mail, which contains the university link for payment of fees. The students first have to check the mail and then through the link, they will be directed to the portal for payment of fees.”

Outstation students were especially feeling the heat at every step of the admission process.

Calling the DU admission process “extremely complicated”, a student from Orissa, Anuradha Agarwal, said that they have been asked by some colleges to fill up a form that requires details about a local guardian. “We cannot really rely on any stranger and fill up such details, the DU administration should have kept another option in case an outstation aspirant does not have a known person in Delhi,” said Anuradha.

The DU will announce the third cut-off list on 9 July, fourth on 15 July, and fifth on 20 July.