new delhi the ministry of human resource development on tuesday sought the response of the delhi university administration over alleged denial of admission to eligible candidates while du has set up an inquiry to probe allegations of denial of admission to students meeting the cutoff criterion colleges maintain that the chaos is the result of faulty admission policy and students being misled by change in names of six courses to include the word btech students meanwhile allege that the inquiry is an eyewash colleges worsthit are maharaja agrasen swami shraddhanand college of vocational studies shyam lal anand atma ram sanatan dharma and sri aurobindoreportedly because of either the btech courses or new launches gargi college admitted well over 250 students five times more than the sanctioned strength for the new launch economics at a cutoff of 93 for general category students maharaja agrasen college which had to call police to control the situation following unprecedented rush for btech in computer science has decided not to admit more students to the course we stopped admissions at 1 pm as per the schedule the problem lies in the admission policy the cutoff formula is guesswork students were not allowed the option of choosing the college more importantly the nomenclature change has misled them btech computer science is the same as bsc computer science with the same faculty it is not equivalent to an engineering course offered by the iits or an engineering college we admitted students at 67 till july 15 last year and this year we have more than 120 students for 60 seats at 90 sunil sondhi principal of the college said for the 201314 round of admissions applicants were not asked to indicate their choice of colleges at the preadmission registration stage colleges launching courses couldnt use a fixed number of applicants to decide cutoff marks in most cases where there has been overadmission college authorities have misjudged the level of interest and set the cutoffs low