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MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEES. 1

Grievance Committee. 1

Delhi University Help Line Counselling Services. 1

Standing Committee (Students) 1

The Cultural Council 1

D.U. Help Line. 2

Placements. 2

 

MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEES

Grievance Committee

(a)     There will be two Grievance Committees one for the North Campus located in the Dean Students' Welfare Office and another for the South Campus located in the Deputy Dean, Students’ Welfare Office at South Campus.  Every College will have its own Grievance Committee, the information about which will be displayed on the Notice Board of the College. Candidates having grievances about admission should first apply to the Grievance Committee of the College.  If necessary they may apply to the Grievance Committee for the North or South Campus.

 

(b)     There will be a separate Grievance Committee to look into the grievances of each of SC/ ST and Physically Challenged candidates, located at Dean, Students Welfare Office, North Campus.

 

Standing Committee (Students)

The standing Committee (Students) advises the Vice Chancellor on various issues pertaining to problems of students whether individual problems or group problems for those who are on the rolls of the University/ College.

The Cultural Council

Each full-time student in a department, Institution/ College of the University shall be required to contribute Rs. 5/- with annual fee in each academic session for Cultural Council, University of Delhi. The Cultural Council established by the University has a number of projects, programmes such as: The University Choir, Music Club, Cine Club, Poets Guild, Creative Writers Forum, Public Speaking Society, Arts Club, Fine Arts, Painting, Sketching, Cartooning, Photo Club and Dance Ensemble. For details contact: Dy. Dean, Student’s Welfare (Cultural and Youth Affairs), Old Jubilee Hall Barracks, Opp. Zoology Department, University Enclave, Delhi 110007. Tel: 27667450 (Direct), 27667725 Extn. 1639

D.U. Help Line Counselling Services

Telephonic Counselling services on Adolescent issues, career and vocational issues and referral on Disaster management is available on 27667725 Extn. 1663. The services are available at 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday. The department also conducts short – term courses on Counselling & Guidance and Psychological Assessment for Competency Building. For further details contact: Department of Adult Continuing Education, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007.

Placements

Generally every college has its own placement cell. An average Delhi University student is walking out of college and into high profile firms. The pay packet range anywhere between Rs. 1.5 – 8 lakh, the highest going to Rs. 20 Lakhs. Those who are coming to the University for recruitments include both top Indian companies and international firms. Most of the colleges, the percentage of people absorbed by big companies is fairly high. For nearly five years, companies especially consulting, banking and hospitality have made rounds of Delhi’s top colleges. The usual profile employers are looking for is research analysts and management trainees. Financial firms prefer students with a commerce of economics background. Consultancy firms favoured students with Economics, Commerce, Maths or English. Media companies preferred students with a background in Mass communication, Political Science, Sociology, Economics or English. The type of companies could be consultancy, media houses, agri – industries, financial institutions. Economics (H) students have good analytical skills and can understand the workings.

Delhi University has started centralised placement cell. It is known as The Central Placement Cell (CPC). A detailed schedule of the placements is available on the website: www.placement.du.ac.in

The usual campus recruitment process involves students and teachers from the college who form a team and invite various companies to colleges. The companies make presentations about the style of working, job profiles and pay packages for the students. The colleges known for good placements are Hansraj College, Jesus and Mary College (W), Lady Sri Ram College of Commerce (W), Sri Venkateshwara, St. Stephen’s College, Shri Ram College of Commerce.  (For more details on placements look under respective colleges)

The companies prefer taking graduates as they can mould people according to their own needs. They also believe that graduates are more dynamic. Companies also feel that students can work well on lesser salaries than an MBA degree holder and are more loyal to them.

Scholarships

The annual income slab of parents whose wards are applying for scholarship is Rs 96,000. The colleges too are making sure that some help in provided to every needy student. From providing scholarships, fee waivers, ad-hoc financial assistance and even personality grooming, they are ensuring that the meritorious but economically less privileged students do not miss out on the opportunity to acquire quality higher education.

Miranda House - Has instituted a new fellowship for the visually challenged students. This is the fourth such scholarship that has been instituted in the college for the visually challenged. Each of these are worth Rs 5,000 each. The college invites applications from needy students.

Lady Shri Ram - Provides several freeships for the students. Its programme-Reaffirming Equity Access Capacity and Humanism (REACH) which was launched with the assistance of the Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access (FAEA) tries to go beyond providing economic assistance to the students. They provide classes in English speaking, basic computing and personality grooming for these students so that they can even take up part time jobs to meet their other expenses.

Hansraj College – They charge the minimum university fees from the needy students. Almost 15-20 students avail these freeships each year. Another 50 students receive around Rs 200-400 every month as scholarships.

Daulat Ram College – It has six types of merit scholarships among which the Silver Jubilee scholarships are the most important.”

Kirori Mal College – They have no fixed number of scholarships earmarked for the students. Almost all those who apply get concessions depending upon their socio-economic condition.

Kamla Nehru College- The College has three kinds of fee waivers depending solely on the economic conditions of the students. Around 300 students benefit from these fee waivers.