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NEW DELHI: St Stephen’s College on Wednesday clarified that the committee of members nominated by the supreme council will only be part of the admission process of Christian students . Earlier, protests had erupted after the college administration had informed the teachers that members of the supreme council would oversee the admission process and be part of the interview panel.

The supreme council is higher than the governing body, with six members of Church of North India (CNI) or members nominated by it.

The college in its prospectus had said that 50% of the total number of seats is set apart exclusively for Christian candidates. A committee nominated by the supreme council will scrutinise all applications once the cutoff has been announced to shortlist candidates.

Being a religious minority college, it reserves 50% of its seats for Christian candidates. Of these, 8.5% is reservedfor Christian applicants under ST category, 25% for Church of North India and 16.5% for candidates from other churches.

As reported by TOI earlier, the college has said that the merit differential between any category of reservation and general category shall not normally exceed 20%. In case of insufficient applications from CNI, CNI-Delhi, the principal can give relaxation of up to 25%.

The principal also has the right to relax the cap on merit differential for supernumerary seats such as sports category, those who opt for Urdu as optional language in their BA programme, people with disability, children of defence personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty and candidates nominated by government of India.

The supreme council committee will not only look into the application of Christian candidates, but also nominate one member in the board for the interview.

For admission of general category students (41.5% of the total), the admission will be done through test and interview. This year there will be written tests for all 10 undergraduate courses. Shortlisted candidates will be called in the ratio of 1:4 for humanities stream and 1:6 for science stream.

For calculating the cutoff percentage, environmental education, fine arts, graphic designing, home science, physical education and other vocational subjects will not be included in the best of four. Being a constituent college of Delhi University, the application form will be available once admissions start. It will cost Rs 200.

This year, a chat facility has been introduced to assist students while filling their forms, apart from a walk-in counter at the college.

