The Bengal JEE board has announced the counselling schedule for admission to engineering colleges through JEE Main.
Ten per cent seats in Bengal’s private engineering colleges (over 3,000) are reserved for those who qualify in JEE Main.
“The three-phased online counselling will begin from September 28 and end on November 11,” said JEE board chairman Malayendu Saha.
This phase of counselling is not related to the Bengal joint entrance examination that is already over. Candidates have to register again for this phase.
The three-phased counselling through state JEE got over on September 15.
“Results of the JEE Main were announced last week. Now, we will start the counselling,” said a JEE board official.
The first round of registration, payment of registration fee and choice-filling exercise will continue from September 28 to 30. After that the first round of seat allotments, results will be declared on October 4.
This will be followed by payment of seat acceptance fee, reporting to the allotted institutes for document verification and admission from October 4 to 9.
The details of the second round and the mopup round (final round) schedule have been uploaded on the JEE board website.
Candidates will personally report to the institute where he or she has been allotted a seat within the days as notified, carrying a printed copy of their allotment letter and other testimonials for physical verification of documents.
A board official said those who had ranked in the state JEE could take part in this phase of counselling for admission to architectural engineering courses only as long as they qualified in the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA).
The Council of Architecture has released the result of the test on September 8.
An official of the higher education said: “The provision to set aside 10 per cent of the seats in Bengal’s colleges for those who crack the JEE Main was introduced so that vacancies could be minimised.”
