FMS online admission forms

NEW DELHI: Even as Delhi University (DU) mulls over making the admission procedure online, its Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) has already gone ahead with it. FMS will allow aspirants to apply and pay online for the entrance exam to be held in January for the 2009 session. FMS will also implement the Other Backward Class (OBC) quota for the first time from the forthcoming session. The faculty will allow a relaxation of five per cent in the eligibility score for OBC candidates, apart from a maximum relaxation of 10% in the final cut-off.

"There will be a relaxation of five per cent in the eligibility criteria for candidates applying for all earmarked seats. Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) and physically challenged candidates and children of war widows already have this relaxation. We have added OBCs to this list because we didn't want to create another category,'' said FMS dean JK Mitra. FMS could not implement the OBC quota from this year as it was through with admissions before the Supreme Court upheld 27% OBC reservation in April this year. Mitra added the relaxation in the cut-off for the merit list will be decided after the entrance exam on January 11. The entrance exam for MBA part-time programme will be held on January 25. The forms will be available till December 1, 2008.

FMS had got about 61,000 applications last year. With increased number of students expected in the 2009 session, Mitra said the faculty is making the admission procedure completely online for the first time where students can not only apply but also pay the fees online. He further added, "DU has been thinking of making the admission procedure online but it hasn't been feasible because of the large number of students at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. As we are doing it for the first time, we need to see how the students respond to it.'' However, aspirants will not be allowed to download forms or order them by post from this time, Mitra added.

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