The seventh list for colleges under Delhi University (DU) was released on Thursday, in which colleges were ordered by the supreme court to exercise complete 10 percent relaxation for OBC (other backward class) students. The court intervened because not all colleges are exercise full 10 percent relaxation and even after six cut off lists, seats are still vacant for OBC students.

The Delhi university also issued a notification to all colleges that says no colleges will be allowed to admit general category students to seats left vacant in the OBC quota.

Admissions under the seventh list took place on Friday, but that too did not bring much relief to the OBC students.

Jatinder Chaudhaury said, “The cut offs this year are so high that no matter how much relaxation you give, it is not really going to benefit us. I am getting admission in an off campus college but that’s not where I want to go. And north campus cut offs are still very high.”

Neetu Dabas said, “We come from such backgrounds that it is difficult to meet the standards of the cut offs this year. I have given up hope of making it to a campus college and will take admission in any college I get, as long as the course is of my choice. I think, there needs to be further relaxation for us.”

The faculty however is of a different view. Virendra Bhardwaj, associate professor, Shivaji College said, “Colleges like us have always followed 10 percent relaxation, even before the court came out with an order. It is always colleges like SRCC, Hindu, Miranda House etc that don’t exercise it which leads to vacant seats.”

S P Aggarwal, principal, Ramanujan college said, "10 percent relaxation is more than enough. The problem is that all the students want to go to the big names and not come to us. Which is why seats remain vacant every year. And if you take a close look, only colleges in north campus have seats vacant, most of the off campus colleges fill their seats, sometimes even by giving less than 10 percent relaxation."

Meena, associate professor, Kalindi College said, “Looks like it is difficult for OBC students to meet even 10 percent relaxation, but one can’t go beyond this, because some educational standard has to be maintained. There is no point in admitting students for tough courses like computer science by giving them a 60 percent cut off but then realising that they are finding it difficult to cope up.”

Sanjay Kumar, associate professor, Zakir Hussain College had an alternative view on this issue and said, “Last year, as many as 20 colleges had failed to fill up 50 per cent of their seats reserved for OBC contenders. We have been exercising 10 percent relaxation since the past three years and every year there are seats going vacant. Some courses easily fill students under 10 percent also but some don’t even after 10 percent. There is a need to review this judgement, we have to find a way to bring actual relief to OBC students.”