Day 1: Of 188 admissions in Delhi college, 129 from TN

New Delhi, August 4

Of the 188 admissions approved for the B Com (Honours) course in Delhi’s Shri Ram College of Commerce on the first day, 129 students were from Tamil Nadu including 33 from one school only.

This information was provided by Minister of State for Human Resources Development Mahendra Nath Pandey in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.

“University of Delhi has reported that on the first day, 188 admissions were approved in B Com (Hons). Of this, 129 students were from Tamil Nadu, including 33 from Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan School, Erode, Tamil Nadu,” Pandey said.

In a written reply to another question, MoS for HRD Upendra Kushwaha said content related to “Bhagwad Gita” is already included in NCERT’s Class XII Sanskrit textbook namely—Shashwati part II (Chapter IV: Karma Gauravam) since 2007-08. — PTI