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Smriti Irani directs JoSAA to refund fees to candidates who wish to surrender seats, fill vacant seats
HRD Minister Smriti Irani has asked Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), which conducted counselling sessions for admissions to IITs, NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs to refund seat acceptance fee to those candidates who either wish to withdraw admissions or surrender their allotted seats.
The HRD Minister also directed the authorities to find ways to fill more than 3000 vacant IIT/NIT/IIIT/GFTI seats that was to be filled under JoSAA, according to media reports.
In a meeting held on Tuesday, August 5, attended by HRD Minister along with the top ministry officials and JoSAA authorities, Ms Irani also questioned the JoSAA authorities on deviating from the court orders and HRD ministry guidelines on ‘Fee Refund’ and other aspects of admission policy that includes maintaining a long waiting list in case seats remain unfilled.
Careers360 had also been running a campaign on “Why IIT, NIT, IIIT, GFTI seats are blocked despite candidates wishing to back out? Why our system is allowing possibilities of many seats at IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs going vacant this year again?” Hundreds of JoSAA candidates and parents have participated in the campaign and wrote letters to HRD Ministry and JoSAA authorities to introduce fee refund and seat surrender option along with a spot round of counseling. We also questioned why JoSAA officials are more interested in filling the seats of private institutes rather than their own, which are vacant.
Careers360 had earlier reported that over 3000 seats allotted under JoSAA lay vacant at IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs, indicating to a major process flaw in JoSAA business rules that had been shrouded in controversy ever since the joint seat allocation process began for the premier engineering colleges in the first week of July, 2015.
The JoSAA authorities had gone mute on seat surrender options for candidates, who dumped a JoSAA seat for a better opportunity elsewhere. Besides this, such candidates, who did not wish to join a seat accepted under JoSAA 2015, were bound to lose their seat acceptance fee of Rs. 45,000. There are many other Loopholes in JoSAA which includes an absence of spot round to fill the vacant seats.
What does HRD Ministry policy say on 'fee refund'?
According to HRD policy on admissions into academic institutions, institutes are required to refund entire fee, after deduction a processing fee of not more than Rs. 1000, if a candidate wish to withdraw admission before the last date of admission. Also, the HRD Policy directs that “should a student leave after joining the course and consequently the seat falling vacant has been filled by another candidate by the last date of admission, the institution must return the fee collected with proportionate deduction of monthly fee and proportionate hostel rent, where applicable.”
Also, the ministry directives to education institutions also mandate them to maintain a long waiting list for admission so that they can fill the vacant seats before the academic session begins.
Stay tuned to engineering.careers360.com for more news and updates on Engineering admissions.
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