New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Providing anxious students and their parents a much-needed respite during the admission season, Delhi University (DU) Monday launched its own page on Facebook for direct interaction with the students, an official said.

Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh, in his message on the page, said: ‘We are today launching our Facebook page, a dedicated email id is also in place. I’ll do my best to personally answer several queries.’

The page is open to students for questions, suggestions and receive information about courses at regular intervals.

The page can be accessed only from the link on the official website of DU. The page already has over 500 members.

‘The vision is to make the procedure of admissions easy for students. The medium is popular among them and is accessible also,’ deputy dean for students welfare Gurpreet Tuteja told IANS.