Central Seat Allocation Board

INTRODUCTION The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India took a policy decision in 2002 to conduct anAll India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) annually, doing away with many of the large number of entrance examinations that were being conducted till then by various institutes in the country for admission to undergraduate degree programmes in the disciplines of Engineering/Technology and Architecture/Planning. This initiative has been widely accepted and appreciated. A Central Counselling Board (CCB) constituted by the Govt. of India coordinated admissions to UG degree programmes in engineering, technology and architecture in respect of selected institutes till 2012. From 2013 onwards, CCB and AIEEE have been renamed as Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) and JEE (Mains) respectively. The CSAB for 2017 has been constituted with Director, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, as its Chairman as per the Office Memorandum of Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India that is placed at the OFFICE MEMORANDUM Link. By the order of Ministry of HRD, there will be joint counselling for IITs/NITs/IIITs/GFTIs for the academic session 2017-18. Hence, for 31 NITs, 20 IIITs, and 18 other Government Funded Institutes (GFTIs) (list displayed on website josaa.nic.in), JOSAA will admit candidates on the basis of their rank in JEE (Main)-2017 and category to the first year of Engineering/Technology and Architecture/Planning Programs through a centralized seat allocation procedure, for the academic session 2017-18. Based on the rank of JEE (mains), admissions will also be made to the first year of Engineering/Technology and Architecture/Planning Programs in some Self Financed Technical Institutes (SFTIs), supernumerary seats in NITs for Union Territories, and in some AICTE approved Institutes for North East and Union Territories (NEUT) through this centralized seat allocation procedure. Important features of the admission procedure, fee refund rules, admis