Joint Seat Allocation Authority

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority also known as JoSAA, is an agency established by the Ministry of Education formerly knows as HRD Ministry to manage and regulate the admission to 110 tertiary institutes administered by the national government of India.[1]

Joint Seat Allocation Authority
Agency overview
Formed2018
JurisdictionGovernment of India
Agency executives
  • Abhay Karandikar, Chairman JOSAA 2018
  • Gautam Biswas, Co-Chairman
  • JOSAA Partner
  • Central Seat Allocation Board
Parent departmentMinistry of Education (India), New Delhi.
Websitejosaa.nic.in/webinfo/Public/home.aspx

History

The agency was established by the ministry in 2018 to manage the allocation of seats for admission to 100 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (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.[2][3] In 2018,agency announced 100 institutes and two special spot vacant seats by CSAB.

Spot round controversy

According to industry reports, between 3,000[4] and 5,000[5] 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.[2]

References
  1. ""Information on Josaa"". "Josaa". Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  2. "JoSAA 2016 - Recent Queries and FAQs". pp. 4, 9. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  3. "More seats in new IITs 387 additional BTech berths on offer this year".
  4. "3000 seats vacant in NITs, IIITs, GFTIs; Join Careers360 campaign to demand spot round". Careers360. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  5. "Aspirants future at stake as MHRD delay up filling up thousands of vacant seats". Retrieved 7 September 2016.


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