Education | The Indian Express
The National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela) will be coordinating the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB 2025) for the academic year 2025-26 to facilitate admissions of Indian national students to undergraduate programmes at 31 NITs, 1 IIEST, 26 IIITs, 3 Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs), and 36 Other Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) under the umbrella of the ‘NIT+ System.’
While NIT Rourkela will lead the NIT+ System, IIT Kanpur will lead the IIT System, and both these institutes will co-host the 2025 edition of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). The activities of JoSAA 2025 will start in the first week of June 2025. Aspiring candidates can visit websites – josaa.nic.in and csab.nic.in for more details. NIT Rourkela confirmed that there shall be six rounds of seat allocation in the 2025 edition of JoSAA.
Like previous years, CSAB will also organise CSAB-Special rounds of seat allocation to fill the vacant seats resulting after all rounds of JoSAA 2025. This year, CSAB-Special will be of three rounds. CSAB will coordinate the Supernumerary Round of seat allocation for students from Union Territories such as Andaman & Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli in selected NITs.
In a notable development, NIT Rourkela has also been entrusted by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to coordinate the Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) 2025 for the admission of Foreign Nationals to undergraduate programs in NIT+ System.
NIT Rourkela has also confirmed that CSAB-NEUT rounds for candidates from North-East States and select Union Territories will begin in June 2025, under AICTE’s reservation scheme for regions lacking such facilities.
It is estimated that over 14.5 lakh JEE Main qualified candidates will be competing for approximately 40,000 seats across all the participating institutes, including 20 per cent seats reserved for female candidates. The entire seat allocation process, from registration and choice filling to seat allotment and document verification, will be conducted online.
DASA 2025 registration and process
DASA seat allotment will be based on JEE Main ranks and preferences. The process will include three rounds of seat allotment, the details of which shall be available at the DASA website – dasanit.org.
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Apart from the standard government norms, the seat allocation in all the above schemes for UG admission to NIT+ System will be based on the ranks secured by the candidates in JEE Main 2025.
A multi-lingual helpdesk in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, and Telugu languages has been established at the CSAB 2025 headquarters at NIT Rourkela to assist the candidates during the entire process of CSAB 2025. In addition, a total of 53 Help Centers (at least one in each State/ UTs) have also been established to assist the candidates.
A dedicated helpdesk at NIT Rourkela will also be operational to support Divyang (PwD) aspirants. Furthermore, help documents in immersive reader format will soon be made available to enhance accessibility for PwD candidates.
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