Data speaks for itself: The Campus environment is set to change

Let some data and facts given below, speak for itself:

Students of Kerala Board will not be eligible any more for admission in the second list as being hundred percenters, almost all of 4824 students were eligible for the first cut off. 

However, there are around 8 to 9000 seats available in the Campus Colleges for admissions this year. And the 2365 hundred percenters from a single board must have got admissions on these 8 to 9000 seats of the Campus Colleges. Ask any security agency to realize that to control the students politics and to paralyze the functioning of DU Campus, 500 dedicated volunteers would be more than enough if they are residing around and within the Campus (hostels) to make themselves available on a few minutes call. My apprehension is that in reality the number will exceed this 500 threshold by a good amount.

Just look at these figures. In one prestigious Campus college of Delhi University on the Sudhir Bose Marg

• In Zoology Hons 60 out of 70 from Kerala Board
• In Political Science 149 out of 150 from Kerala Board

Another premier Campus college near Maurice Nagar

• In Political Science Hons 29 out of 29 hundred percenter are from Kerala Board
• In B.Com, out of 40 candidates having hundred percent marks all belong to Kerala Board

 In yet another premier college in the North Campus situated on Chhatra Marg:

• In History Hons 9 out of 9 from Kerala Board
• In Sociology Hons 10 out of 10 from Kerala Board
• In English Hons 36 out 38 from Kerala Board
• In Political Science 43 out of 44 from Kerala Board

Examples are plenty. Trend is extremely unusual and demands due attention.

An HT article claims that according to the CBSE board only 550 students have been given more than 99 percent marks. Similarly Kerala Board claims about 700 students have been given hundred percent marks. However, DU claimed that 4,824 students of Kerala Board have hundred percent and around 3000 of CBSE have the same. The catch lies in the fact that DU calculates the percentage only based on Four papers and that too only in class 12. While Kerala Board considers all the papers and for 11 and 12 both, CBSE considers Five papers of the class 12. Please have a look at the following table to get to realize the actual scenario. All approximations have been done based on the numbers available on the authentic internet sites. 

Total seats in Campus colleges available for admissions 85000 approximately:

Name of the Board	Total number of pass-outs in class 12	Total applicants for DU	Number of students based on slots of marks	Suggestive percentage in four best papers for cut off based admissions in DU (Total 9200 as claimed by the registrar)	Admission taken in DU with hundred percent marks in their Best Four
CBSE	13,69,000	46,054	Less than 550 as about 550 candidates scored more than 99%	Unconfirmed sources claim this to be around 3000	around 100
KERALA State Board	3,20,000	4,824	Roughly estimated as 700	4800 as claimed through DU sources in news reports	2365
All Other Boards combined	Estimated as 60 to 70,00,000	10,026	No estimates	Around 1400	around 100

 

About 2500 students of Kerala Board did not opt for DU this year and only 2365 candidates out of 4824 students having perfect scores of hundred percent have got admitted in one of the colleges in the North campus that has a strength of 8 to 9000 students. This number in all probability is almost 90 percent of all such candidates having hundred percent. These students having such marks will claim even the hostel seats very comfortably. Only 10 percent of those having hundred percent belong to all Boards other than Kerala Board.

So, the plan has already been successfully executed. The environment of the class and the Campus will get impacted immediately with a sudden and significant demographic transformation. And as a logical conclusion, I am preparing myself for a continuous political disturbance in the Campus at the cost of our teaching-learning environment.