The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) administers the counselling and seat allotment processes for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and some Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs). The JoSAA counselling is done on the basis of marks secured in JEE Mains 2021 and JEE Advanced 2021. The JEE Mains 2021 results for Paper 1 and Paper 2 is already declared, while the result of JEE Advanced will be declared on Friday, October 15. JoSAA counselling, conducted as a centralised online admission process, will admit the qualified candidates to the IITs, NITs, IIEST, IIITs (Triple-I-Ts) and Other-GFTIs.
Candidates will be able to register and fill their choice of courses and colleges in online mode though JoSAA. The JoSAA counselling will be held in several rounds.
10 Points On JoSAA Counselling
It is mandatory for the candidates to register through the official JoSAA 2021 online portal to be able to obtain seats to be allocated through JoSAA 2021 in any of the IITs, NITs, IIEST, IIITs (Triple-I-Ts) and Other-GFTIs. The academic programs, along with the category-wise intake capacity, will be announced on the online portal josaa.nic.in.
It is mandatory for all the candidates to qualify JEE Advanced 2021 to participate in JoSAA counselling.
For candidates who have qualified in JEE (Advanced) 2021 and have appeared in JEE (Main) 2021, the category of a candidate as entered in the database provided by the JEE Apex Board 2021 [which conducted JEE (Main)-2021] will be considered based on document verification by the Joint Admission Board 2021.
All the candidates who appeared for JEE (Main)-2021 are considered while preparing rank lists and are allowed to fill-in their choices. The rank lists provided by the JEE Apex Board will be used as such without any change even if two or more candidates have the same rank; in other words, JoSAA2021 will NOT apply any tie-breaking norms / rules.
Unfilled GEN-EWS and OBC-NCL category seats will be de-reserved and treated as OPEN category seats for allocation in every round of seat allocation. However, unfilled SC and ST category seats will NOT be dereserved.
All JEE (Advanced) 2021 qualified PwD candidates, willing to get a seat in IITs through JoSAA, are required to visit any of the IITs for physical verification along with a copy of the PwD certificate(s).
At the time of accepting the seat online, a candidate has to opt for any one of the options -- ‘freeze', ‘float' or ‘slide' for the choice of academic program for subsequent round(s),
At the conclusion of joint seat allocation and seat acceptance, candidates will have to report at the admitting institute, complete all the admission formalities of the Institute, get the admission confirmed and begin the academic session.
A candidate, who has already accepted a seat in one of the IITs allotted by JoSAA-2021, can withdraw the seat by reporting online
Candidates who have been confirmed a seat in an IIT in any of the first five rounds of JoSAA, and who do not withdraw the confirmed seat by the fifth round of counseling, become ineligible for JEE (Advanced) in subsequent years.
