Another Blunder of CSAB:Special Round Allotment Put on Hold

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Result published on 18th August 2015 stands cancelled. The revised allotment for special round of counselling will be published on 20th August 2015 (12:00 Noon),
 thereafter candidates may report to allotted Institute with new allotment letter.

The special round for admissions to NITs, IIITs and other government-funded technical institutes (GFTIs) was a disaster as the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) was forced to withdraw the allotment results on Tuesday, a day after they were released. The revised allotments will be displayed by noon on August 20. On Monday, the board allotted seats to over 5,000 students. By midnight, it got over 1,000 mails from aggrieved students who had already been admitted to institutes but ended up with seats lower on their preferences` list due to a "technical problem". The number of affected students could be way higher as close to 1.5 lakh aspirants had registered for the round. 
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As per the notice put on the website
A new result will be published on 20th August for all.CSAB 2015 has analysed the queries raised by large number of candidates who had taken admission in different NITs, IIITs, GFTIs through JoSAA counselling and again participated in Special round of CSAB-2015. It was found that such candidates have selected SLIDE and then selected the option namely, ”MODIFY YOUR CHOICES” without understanding the implications of the same. As a result willingness option changed to FLOAT mode automatically with the modified choices. This has resulted in migration to other institutes. 
All the candidates who had taken admission in different NITs, IIITs, GFTIs through JoSAA counselling and again participated in Special round of CSAB-2015, are advised to reconfirm their willingness (SLIDE/FLOAT/FREEZE) onCSAB 2015 by 8:00 AM on 20th August 2015.

Special Round : Detailed Statistics

At the end of the special round that concluded on Tuesday, only 195 seats are vacant in NITs, IIITs and other government-funded technical institutions. The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) filled over 95% of the 5,550 vacant seats in these central institutes after receiving 1.5 lakh applications. Officials claimed that it was probably the least seats ever vacant in NITs and other institutes covered under the CSAB. 

For the first time, IITs and NITs held a joint seat allocation process this year for admissions. While IITs filled most seats by the end of the third round, NITs and other central institutes had around 5,550 vacant seats after four rounds. To fill the vacancies, the ministry of human resources & development decided to conduct a special round. After a preliminary analysis by NITs, officials felt that having a withdrawal option after every round in the joint process would have probably helped reduce the vacancies. 

Asok De, director of NIT-Patna and chairman of CSAB, said, "This year, since the withdrawal option was not available, many students allotted seats (not first choices) still took admission and blocked it till the fourth round. Later, when they got admission elsewhere, in state institutes or other leading ones, they left it." De added that if students were allowed to withdraw, these seats would have been available for students in subsequent rounds. But, he added, this is a preliminary observation and the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) will have to study the repercussions of providing the withdrawal option before recommending it in its report. 

Of the 1.5 lakh students registered for the special round, only 2,300 were new; the others were also part of the four rounds of JoSAA and did not take seats for many reasons. Two of the 67 institutes which were part of CSAB refused to participate in the special round. "The 195 seats are vacant only because no student applied for them. The first joint seat allocation process was successful this year," said De. 

After the four rounds of JoSAA, NITs and other central technical institutes had filled 17,793 seats. Of these, 14,072 students did not opt for a change in seat after allocation, while 3,621 opted for a better option. Around 1,400 students chose to opt for other programmes in the institute allotted, while over 2,200 opted for other programmes in other institutes. 

Source: TOI