THE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI)
(a) to (d) : A statement is laid in the Table of the
House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF PARTS (a) TO (d) OF LOK
SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.714 FOR 16.5.2000 REGARDING
ADMISSON PROCEDURES OF UNIVERSITIES ASKED BY SHRI
CHANDRAKANT KHAIRE.
(a) to (d): Yes, Sir. Department of Education has asked
all autonomous organisations under the Department including
the Universities in Delhi to launch web-based-educational
information and services at the earliest. As regards the
provision of admission forms on the internet, such decisions
are being taken by the universities themselves.
PRESENT STATUS OF WEBSITES OF UNIVERSITIES IN DELHI
As per the information received from Universities of
Delhi, the status of their website is as indicated below:
(i) INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY (IGNOU)
The Indira Gandhi National Open University has launched
its website in July, 1999 and posted information
relating to admission including the application forms
on the internet. For obtaining prosepectus, admission
application forms and the information relating to
courses offered by IGNOU, any one can visit website
http://ignou.edu./download.htm. The information can be
obtained on an other website of IGNOU viz.
http://www.ignou.org. The website is updated
constantly.
(ii) DELHI UNIVERSITY
The University is compiling all the information
relating to courses offered and admission requirements. The
University has supported the proposal of the Government and
assured to develop information data base for the benefit of
the students at the time of admission.
(iii) JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVESITY (JNU)
Jawaharlal Nehru University has launched it website and
the information relating to admission has been provided by
the University on internet except admission application
forms. The same can be accessed at the website address
http://www.jnu.ac.in. JNU has expressed it inability to
provide admission application form on website for national
students. The forms can be obtained from the admission
counter of the University as well as by post. However, in
respect of foreign national candidates, the admission
related information as well as application forms have been
provided by the University on the internet which can be down
loaded by visiting website
http://www.jnu.ac.in/foreign.html.
(iv) JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY (JMI)
Jamia Millia Islamia has informed that as soon as the
prospectus is printed and the admissions are advertised
in the newspapers, the admission related information
will be put up on the internet within a week’s time.
(v) GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY (GGSIU)
The information pertaining to admission procedure 2000-
2001 for all programmes affiliated to GSIU has been
made available at www.ggsipu.nic.in.
