MUMBAI: A fundamental faux in this year's admission to elite Indian engineering colleges has resulted in 3,200 spots lying vacant at the end of the admissions process. Without an exit clause, a
bunch of students are stuck with seats they don't want to join, and another anxious lot of candidates who want to sign up at these colleges cannot do so.
When the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) set the business rules for admission to the IITs, NITs, IIIT and other government-funded technical institutes, it did not permit students to cancel admissions. Not only did the faulty design not allow unhappy candidates to give up the allotted spots, it even restricted the interested students, sitting a bit lower in the merit list, to opt for these colleges. Moreover, for each of these 3,200 seats a non-refundable seat acceptance fee of Rs 45,000 was paid, with the government making a neat Rs 14.4 crore.
"At the end of the process, there are 3,200 seats where students have blocked the seats but have not confirmed their admission," said NIT Patna director Asok De, also co-chairman of the JoSAA. Parents complained that the merit list did not roll as seats were not allowed to be withdrawn, with little change that took place in the allotment after the initial two rounds.
A total of 87 institutes are a part of the joint admission process this year. It is the first time top engineering colleges have come together to select students. India has a had a total of 18 IITs, ISM Dhanbad, 32 NITs, 18 state-funded technical institutes and 18 IIITs.
The process, broken up into four rounds, is thus: In the first round, students are permitted to put down as many options of institutes and courses as they please. For instance, if a student is allocated choice number 99, the student could block this preference, report to the institute and pay the non-refundable seat acceptance fee of Rs 45,000. The candidate could also opt for an upgrade (If the student does not accept the option allotted, s/he is out of the admission process).
Again, if the student in the second round gets a better choice, the candidate can once again opt for betterment. For instance, after completion of all the rounds, let's assume, the student is allotted a seat in NIT, Delhi's school of mechanical engineering, but also gets into a better college (private/foreign or an institute which has not participated in the JoSAA), there is no option of cancelling admission at the NIT. Hence, at the end of the process, this student, is in NIT, Delhi, but only on paper. He will not join the college as he has opted to join another institute of his choice.
"This isn't a reserved seats problem. The tragedy is there are students allocated seats but they don't want to join is. And there are many waiting to join, but they have not been allotted seats," said the director of an Indian Institute of Information Technology. Most of the new IIITs have a vacancy percentage of about 25-30.
Even established colleges like NIT Trichy have unfilled seats. "Many of us have demanded JoSAA can refund our money and allot the seat to another student who wants admission," said a candidate admitted to the computer science stream at IIIT-Guwahati, who no longer wants to join it.
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bunch of students are stuck with seats they don't want to join, and another anxious lot of candidates who want to sign up at these colleges cannot do so.
When the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) set the business rules for admission to the IITs, NITs, IIIT and other government-funded technical institutes, it did not permit students to cancel admissions. Not only did the faulty design not allow unhappy candidates to give up the allotted spots, it even restricted the interested students, sitting a bit lower in the merit list, to opt for these colleges. Moreover, for each of these 3,200 seats a non-refundable seat acceptance fee of Rs 45,000 was paid, with the government making a neat Rs 14.4 crore.
"At the end of the process, there are 3,200 seats where students have blocked the seats but have not confirmed their admission," said NIT Patna director Asok De, also co-chairman of the JoSAA. Parents complained that the merit list did not roll as seats were not allowed to be withdrawn, with little change that took place in the allotment after the initial two rounds.
A total of 87 institutes are a part of the joint admission process this year. It is the first time top engineering colleges have come together to select students. India has a had a total of 18 IITs, ISM Dhanbad, 32 NITs, 18 state-funded technical institutes and 18 IIITs.
The process, broken up into four rounds, is thus: In the first round, students are permitted to put down as many options of institutes and courses as they please. For instance, if a student is allocated choice number 99, the student could block this preference, report to the institute and pay the non-refundable seat acceptance fee of Rs 45,000. The candidate could also opt for an upgrade (If the student does not accept the option allotted, s/he is out of the admission process).
Again, if the student in the second round gets a better choice, the candidate can once again opt for betterment. For instance, after completion of all the rounds, let's assume, the student is allotted a seat in NIT, Delhi's school of mechanical engineering, but also gets into a better college (private/foreign or an institute which has not participated in the JoSAA), there is no option of cancelling admission at the NIT. Hence, at the end of the process, this student, is in NIT, Delhi, but only on paper. He will not join the college as he has opted to join another institute of his choice.
"This isn't a reserved seats problem. The tragedy is there are students allocated seats but they don't want to join is. And there are many waiting to join, but they have not been allotted seats," said the director of an Indian Institute of Information Technology. Most of the new IIITs have a vacancy percentage of about 25-30.
Even established colleges like NIT Trichy have unfilled seats. "Many of us have demanded JoSAA can refund our money and allot the seat to another student who wants admission," said a candidate admitted to the computer science stream at IIIT-Guwahati, who no longer wants to join it.
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