New Delhi: The days when Delhi University’s “evening” colleges were considered inferior to the regular morning colleges due to lower cut-offs, is now a thing in past. With each passing year, the evening colleges have also started gaining popularity among students by turning themselves into regular colleges.
Evening colleges were started for students interested in part-time jobs or professional courses while pursuing their college education. But with the competition getting tougher every year due to high-cut offs, the regular students have started opting for evening colleges. With this, the stereotype that only low scorers and male students study in evening colleges is also being challenged.
Dyal Singh College (Evening) is likely to be converted into a regular morning college from the upcoming academic session. The proposal is, however, awaiting the approval from DU’s Academic Council (AC), whose meeting is scheduled on June 20. If approved, DSC (Evening) will have a shared campus with Dyal Singh College (Morning). Upon conversion, DSC(E) would be named after Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya.
In the 2013-14, Deshband-hu College (Evening) was turned into a morning college, by the name of Ramanujan College. The college now functions in the same campus but inside a different building.
“Earlier, students used to feel that the evening colleges do not provide quality education but this common notion has changed over the years. The evening colleges are slowly transitioning to morning colleges so that the students get adequate time for any extracurricular activities besides equal level of education,” said a university official.
Similarly, in 2015-16 academic session Ram Lal Anand College (Evening) switched to morning sessions re-christening itself as Aryabhatta College.
“If we even compare the cut-off trends in evening colleges in the last few years with morning colleges, either the cut-offs in evening colleges has been higher when compared to morning colleges or to an extent similar,” the official added.
