Jalandhar, April 3
About 10 lakh students across the country taking the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) this year would have the convenience of undergoing counselling for admission to various institutes from their hometown.
Taking its off-campus, online counselling process a step further, the Central Counselling Board (CCB) will no longer require candidates to go to pre-designated centres for the off-campus part of the counselling process. It could now be done from any location.
“Under the new system, the students need to go to the allotted institute only three days prior to the commencement of their classes on July 20. The whole process is aimed at minimising the loss of time, effort and expenditure incurred by the student and his family in the whole process,” Dr YV Rao, director, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, said. He is coordinating the entire exercise this time.
Dr Rao added that the students would be given a log in and a password at the time of the delivery of their AIEEE scorecard. “Using the same, the students will be able to fill in any number of preferences for streams and colleges from the list that will be mentioned in the website,” he said.
The AIEEE is scheduled for April 26 and the counselling would tentatively start around June 15. About 40 centre-funded institutes, including the 30 reporting centres would function as help centres for those who would need assistance for the purpose.
Last year, AIEEE counseling was done in two phases. The first phase was off-campus, requiring the candidate to register online, fill in their details and exercise their choices to facilitate the selection from pre-designated centres. The second phase required the candidate to report at specified counselling centres.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) is facilitating the counselling proces. Local NIC officials revealed that pre-awareness camps for students were also being planned in various participating colleges to make them aware of the process. The website would boldly carry warnings, urging students to be careful and be doubly sure of mentioning correct details.
