NEW DELHI: Promises of a glitch-free online admission procedure fell flat on Tuesday, day one of Delhi University's undergraduate merit-based admissions. The college's portal malfunctioned as the server crashed and several other candidates had to go back from faculties with out completing admission processes. Certain faculties, like Sri Venkateswara and Kamala Nehru, also noticed fewer admissions on day one because of the crash despite a big applicant footfall.
Several candidates who had come to DU after meeting the sky-high first cut-off had to go back disillusioned as they had been unable to get printouts of the DU centralised admission shape.
How nearly 50k aspirants crashed admission server
Neeha, a student who had come from Calicut to Hansraj for admission, stated she and her father had been attempting since 7 am to open the portal and get the forms but couldn’t.
Similarly, Hari Prasad of Salem also had trouble getting a printout of the shape; he hopes to complete the admission procedure prior to his train again home in the subsequent two days. The system faults also hit admission numbers on day one.
At Kamla Nehru College, only 98 admissions had been finished in comparison to 125 on the first day ultimate 12 months. The college administration portal blamed portal dysfunction squarely for the fall in numbers although that they had a lot of candidates in a position to begin the admission procedure.
Similarly, only 42 admissions had been made to Sri Venkateswara College, nearly part the admissions of the primary day ultimate 12 months (78).
Gargi College, too, recorded only 200 admissions this 12 months as compared to the 300 made ultimate 12 months on day one, whilst Maharaja Agrasen recorded only 10 admissions, a fragment of the 40 the primary day ultimate 12 months.
However, some candidates had been able to get entry to the admission shape, even though at the price of their sleep.
“We stayed up all evening and kept checking the portal for any updates,” stated Aditi Ratwaya, an applicant to SRCC.
We managed to print the shape early in the morning and came instantly to the college for admission,” she stated.
The admission assist desks on the faculties also had their paintings cut out because of the portal system faults, each and every having to give an explanation for that admissions can not go through with out admission forms.
However, considering that several oldsters had come from some distance away, the colleges requested the candidates to either keep in the college, entire the remainder of the formalities related to lessons and topics and stay up for the portal to begin functioning, or pass home and try accessing it again later in the day.
Last 12 months, too, the college needed to face flak because of portal system faults the primary day. This 12 months, in step with the DU administration, the excessive volume of traffic on the portal crashed the servers.
“We had some trouble in the server till about 12.30-1 pm. We weren't anticipating this kind of volume where nearly 50,000 students had been looking to get entry to the portal concurrently,” stated Maharaj Okay Pandit, chairperson of the DU admissions committee.
“But later we disbursed the weight to other servers which resolved the subject,” he added. He also claimed that the number of paid admissions this 12 months have nearly doubled, touching 896 as compared to 440 ultimate 12 months. “We have almost 2,000 approved applications this 12 months, almost double of what it was once ultimate 12 months,” he added.
Several candidates who had come to DU after meeting the sky-high first cut-off had to go back disillusioned as they had been unable to get printouts of the DU centralised admission shape.
How nearly 50k aspirants crashed admission server
Neeha, a student who had come from Calicut to Hansraj for admission, stated she and her father had been attempting since 7 am to open the portal and get the forms but couldn’t.
Similarly, Hari Prasad of Salem also had trouble getting a printout of the shape; he hopes to complete the admission procedure prior to his train again home in the subsequent two days. The system faults also hit admission numbers on day one.
At Kamla Nehru College, only 98 admissions had been finished in comparison to 125 on the first day ultimate 12 months. The college administration portal blamed portal dysfunction squarely for the fall in numbers although that they had a lot of candidates in a position to begin the admission procedure.
Similarly, only 42 admissions had been made to Sri Venkateswara College, nearly part the admissions of the primary day ultimate 12 months (78).
Gargi College, too, recorded only 200 admissions this 12 months as compared to the 300 made ultimate 12 months on day one, whilst Maharaja Agrasen recorded only 10 admissions, a fragment of the 40 the primary day ultimate 12 months.
However, some candidates had been able to get entry to the admission shape, even though at the price of their sleep.
“We stayed up all evening and kept checking the portal for any updates,” stated Aditi Ratwaya, an applicant to SRCC.
We managed to print the shape early in the morning and came instantly to the college for admission,” she stated.
The admission assist desks on the faculties also had their paintings cut out because of the portal system faults, each and every having to give an explanation for that admissions can not go through with out admission forms.
However, considering that several oldsters had come from some distance away, the colleges requested the candidates to either keep in the college, entire the remainder of the formalities related to lessons and topics and stay up for the portal to begin functioning, or pass home and try accessing it again later in the day.
Last 12 months, too, the college needed to face flak because of portal system faults the primary day. This 12 months, in step with the DU administration, the excessive volume of traffic on the portal crashed the servers.
“We had some trouble in the server till about 12.30-1 pm. We weren't anticipating this kind of volume where nearly 50,000 students had been looking to get entry to the portal concurrently,” stated Maharaj Okay Pandit, chairperson of the DU admissions committee.
“But later we disbursed the weight to other servers which resolved the subject,” he added. He also claimed that the number of paid admissions this 12 months have nearly doubled, touching 896 as compared to 440 ultimate 12 months. “We have almost 2,000 approved applications this 12 months, almost double of what it was once ultimate 12 months,” he added.
Server crash mars Day 1 of DU admissions
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