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Mangaluru: The Ministry of Education constituted a Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) consisting of the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) and the Joint Admission Board of IITs (JAB-IITs) for joint counselling and seat allocation to IITs and the NIT+ System which consists of 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs, 3 Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) and 37 GFTIs (Central/State Government Funded Technical Institutions).
The CSAB-2024 is entrusted with the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal under the chairmanship of Prof. B. Ravi, Director, NITK who is also the Co-Chairman of the JoSAA-2024. NITK Surathkal is jointly coordinating with IIT Madras (JAB-IIT) for JOSAA-2024.
The seat allocation to the IITs is based on the candidates’ JEE (Advanced) rank, while the seat allocation to the NIT+ System is based on the candidates’ JEE (Main) rank. All the candidates who have qualified JEE (Main) are eligible to participate in the NIT+ System.
About 15 lakh JEE-2024(Main) candidates are eligible to participate for about 42,000 seats for the NIT+ System. Reservation of seats for different categories (EWS/OBC-NCL/ SC/ST/PwD) is as per the Government of India norms.
All candidates with 75% (GEN/EWS/OBC-NCL) or 65% (SC/ST/PwD) in class XII (or equivalent) examination are eligible to participate in the counseling process. Alternatively, a candidate has to be in top 20 percentile of respective category in Boards of Class XII or equivalent examination. The entire seat allotment, fee payment and certificate verification processes are online (https://josaa.nic.in).
Five rounds of counselling will be conducted through the JoSAA portal starting from June 10. The candidates can start registration, choose and prioritize the courses of their choice (choice-filling) from 121 different higher education institutions from June 10 and lock their choices by June 18. The first round of allotment will be done on June 20.
The seats remaining vacant in the NIT+ System after five rounds of JoSAA will be filled through two special rounds called CSAB Special Rounds conducted by CSAB-2024 starting from July 29.
The candidates willing to upgrade their seats and/or the fresh candidates entering the system should register afresh for the CSAB Special Rounds at the CSAB portal (https://csab.nic.in).
In addition, CSAB-2024 will also conduct a separate counselling process called the “CSAB- Supernumerary round” to fill the seats earmarked for the candidates from some of the Union Territories in selected NITs (NIT Durgapur, NIT Calicut and SVNIT, Surat) during Aug. 14-19, 2024.
Fifty-two document Verification Centers (VCs) and Help Centers (HCs) have been established across the country to assist JoSAA/CSAB-2024 counselling process.
A multilingual Help-Desk (10 Indian languages) at CSAB Headquarters at NITK Surathkal has also been established to facilitate the counselling process for all the stakeholders.
The point of contact for all the 52 VCs and HCs is published on the JoSAA/CSAB-2024 website.
As the universities for North-Eastern (NE) States and Union Territories (UTs) do not have Engineering Colleges or lack facilities for education in specific fields of Technical Education, the government of India has a scheme of reservation of seats in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture/ Pharmacy courses conducted at degree-level technical institutions approved by the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the benefit of candidates from these regions.
The seats under this scheme are allotted through the CSAB-NEUT-2024 counselling process.
The online registration and uploading of documents for this counselling process will be carried out during June 17-24.
Prof. B. Ravi, Director NITK Surathkal and Chairman CSAB-2024 has advised the parents to make themselves available and be with the candidates during critical moments of the counselling process, so that informed and confident decisions can be taken without any anxieties.
The candidates and their parents are requested to frequently visit the JoSAA/CSAB-2024 website for updates.
Important Dates & Processes:
- Candidate registration/choice filling: 10-18 June 2024
- Mock Seat Allocation-1 & 2: 15 & 17 June 2024
- Locking of Choices: 18 June 2024
- Seat Allocation (Round 1): 20 June 2024
- Online reporting (fee payment / document upload, round 1): 20-24 June 2024
- Seat Allocation (Round 2): 27 June 2024
- Seat Allocation (Round 3): 4 July, 2024
- Seat Allocation (Round 4): 10 July, 2024
- Seat Allocation (Round 5): 17 July, 2024
- CSAB Special Round counselling (Round 1 & 2): 29 July – 11 Aug. 2024
- CSAB-NEUT-2024 counselling (Round 1 & 2): 17 June – 8 Aug 2024
- CSAB Supernumerary counselling: 14 Aug. – 19 Aug. 2024