JoSAA 2017: 5,915 seats vacant at IITs, IIITs, NITs, GFTIs after round six
Admission process for IITs, NITs, IIITs, GFTIs
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2017 released the list of seats vacant across all participating institutes after round six. Seat allocation is done on the basis of AIR (All India Rank) in JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) Main, and Advanced. Approximately 460 seats are vacant at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and 5,400 seats at the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs). JoSAA is set-up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to manage and regulate joint seat allocation for admissions to various IITs, IIITs, NITs, and GFTIs.
PaGaLGuY spoke to Ex-Chairman, JEE Advanced 2016, Prof KV Krishna from IIT Guwahati, about the huge number of vacant seats after round 6. “It is because JoSAA gave students an option to withdraw from allocated seat till round six. I think IIT seats should be filled by round seven. About IIITs, NITs, I think the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) 2017 is planning to conduct special rounds after round seven to fill vacant seats across those institutes.”
How to download JoSAA 2017 seventh round allotment result
- Candidates need to visit the official website
- On the homepage, there is an active link of ‘Round 7: View allotment result and seat acceptance fee’
- On clicking the link, candidates will be directed to a page where they have to provide their JEE Main roll number and password
- On submitting the information, candidates will get their result of seat allotment which they need to download for future reference
Today, July 22, 2017, is the last day for seat acceptance through JoSAA. Authorities will get the final figure on the number of vacant seats after today. Students allocated a seat in round seven must report to any of the given reporting centres by today. If they fail to do so, they will not secure admission, as today is the last day of seat allocation for the 2017-18 academic year at IITs, IIITs, NITs, and GFTIs.