The Joint Seat Allocation Authority, also known as JoSAA, is an agency established by the
Ministry of Education
An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...
formerly knows as HRD Ministry to manage and regulate the admission to 110 tertiary institutes administered by the national government of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
.
History
The agency was established by the ministry in 2018 to manage the allocation of seats for admission to 100
Indian Institutes of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. They are governed by the Instit ...
(IIT),
National Institutes of Technology
The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are the central government-owned-public technical institutes under the ownership of Ministry of Education, Government of India. They are governed by the National Institutes of Technology, Science ...
(NIT),
Indian Institutes of Information Technology
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of 26 interdisciplinary technology-based- engineering research institutions in India which are focused on information technology. Five of them are established, funded and managed ...
(IIIT) and
Government Funded Technical Institutes
The Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTI) are a list of 27 premier technical institutes funded by the Government of India.
As per the official date the number of seats available for academic year 2015 were 9,260 approx. It follows simi ...
, starting with the 2018-19 academic year. It is made up of representatives from the ministry's Joint Admission Board and Central Seat Allocation Board, which are responsible for the allocation of seats to IITs and the other institutes respectively.
In 2018, the agency announced 100 institutes and two special spot vacant seats by CSAB. Admission to the
Institute of Chemical Technology
Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) is a state-funded deemed university in Mumbai, India. The institute also has campuses at Bhubaneswar, Odisha and Jalna, Marathwada. It is focused on training and research in the fields of chemical engin ...
Mumbai-IndianOil Odisha Campus is also carried out by JoSAA since 2021.
Spot round controversy
According to industry reports, between 3,000
and 5,000
seats in the institutes have been left vacant following the 2016 counseling process. Despite calls for a spot round of allocations to fill the vacancies, the agency has announced that a spot round will not be conducted.
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See also
* List of Public service commissions in India
References
Government agencies of India
Ministry of Education (India)
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Indian Institutes of Technology