NIT-T: seat allotment process begins

The process of issuing seat confirmation letters to newly-admitted first-year B.Tech candidates began at the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi (NIT-T) on Thursday.

C. Natarajan, Director (in-charge), NIT-T, handed over the first seat confirmation letter to M. Sangavi for B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the presence of C. Nagamani, Dean - Academic.

After the result of the first round of seat allotment was announced on Wednesday, candidates were instructed to report at the reporting centres on Thursday.

As per the allotment, 25 students in top 1,000 in JEE (Main) have opted for NIT-T, ranked top among NITs in the country.

In NIT-T, 831 seats will be filled up through JoSSA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority): 50% each for home State (Tamil Nadu) and other States. Out of the total seats, 132 are reserved for female-only category.

The JoSSA was constituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to manage and regulate seat allocation for B.E. (12,079 seats), B.Tech. (18,620), B.Arch. (4,023 seats), and other programmes (4,703 seats) for admissions into 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 23 IIITs and 23 other government funded technical institutions.

Seven rounds of centralised counselling are to be carried out for seat allotment.

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