New Delhi, June 05: The number of physically challenged students reporting for admissions at the Delhi University has steadily gone up to 300 in the first week of the process after an initially poor turnout.
Only 20 ‘special students’ had reported on the first two days at the admission centre catering for them, leaving the University administration concerned over the abysmally low number.
However, the number picked up in the later days with as many as 72 students turning up on one of the admission days.
“In the last seven years, this was the first time when such a large number of students reported on one single day,” Seema Parihar, Deputy Dean Students Welfare (DSW), and in-charge of the centre for special children told PTI.
Over 1600 seats are reserved for specially-abled students in the Delhi University, but hundreds of seats are left vacant every year.
–PTI