5 pc seats reserved for the talented.

(From The Times of India)

NEW DELHI: If you are good in music, dance, drama, quizzing and debates, then colleges want you. The Delhi University has reserved five per cent of all seats for Sports and Extra Curricular Activities (ECA).

While sports has a clear criteria like state level or zonal level seeding or certificates, no such criteria has been laid down for ECA.

The Delhi University information booklet only states that five per cent of seats have to be set aside for sports and ECA. Individual colleges have devised their own ways to assess this. Certain common procedures are the filling of a separate form for ECA, and setting up of a committee …