The Joint Seat Allocation Authority, also known as JoSAA, is an agency established by the
Ministry of Education
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formerly known as HRD Ministry to manage and regulate the admission to 110 tertiary institutes administered by the
Government of India
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.
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 (IIT) are a network of engineering and technology institutions in India. Established in 1950, they are under the purview of the Ministry of Education of the Indian Government and are governed by the Inst ...
(IIT),
National Institutes of Technology (NIT),
Indian Institutes of Information Technology
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are Centrally Funded Technical Institutes, centrally funded technical institutes located across India. They are a group of 26 List of engineering branches, interdisciplinary technology-base ...
(IIIT) and
Government Funded Technical Institutes, 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
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In some countries, institutes ca ...
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
* National Testing Agency
The National Testing Agency (NTA) is an autonomous body of Department of Higher Education (India), Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education (India), Ministry of Education of India. It was established in November 2017 to conduct ...
References
Government agencies of India
Ministry of Education (India)
Indian Institutes of Technology
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