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In Focus

-Counselling services offered by National Objectives
eInformatics Centre is a one-stop online solution • Standardize & streamline the admission process
for all examinations, results publication, counselling, • Provide Digital Infrastructure to educational
and admission needs right from the application institutions for smooth conduct of admission
form, fee payment, e-Admit card, answer key display, counselling.
e-Score card, selection of courses/ institutes, seat • Build holistic capabilities across examination and
allocation, document verification, admission, seat counselling services leading to the transparent
withdrawal, and MIS & exception reports. The entire procedure for seat allocations in educational
lifecycle for admissions has been captured on a
single platform providing a streamlined stepwise institutions.
process for application filing. • To allocate seats as per rank, merit, policies, and
preferences exercised by the candidates
National Informatics Centre has been • Reduce physical, mental stresses & financial
instrumental in partnering with 35+ examination burden on candidates appearing for admissions e-Counselling services developed
and counselling bodies/ agencies like NTA, CBSE, at various institutions
AICTE, UGC, AKTU, OJEE, WBJEEB, etc. in facilitating • Reduces seat vacancy up to zero level. by NIC are the result of a
central and state-level examinations such as JEE, focussed effort to put the best
UGC/ CSIR-NET, CTET, NEET, CMAT/ GPAT, IIFT, etc. Counselling and admission use of technology for bringing
Counselling services are provided to national/ state Services
boards like JoSAA, CSAB, CCMT, BCECEB, MCC, UPSEE, The entire counselling process has been transparency in the admission
WBJEE GGSIPU, etc. for admission to 3000+ academic designed as a responsive web application made process of the educational
institutions including IITs, NITs, MAMC, AFMC, and available to the user as a service suite. Automated institutions in our country. This has
Central/ State-funded universities/ institutions and streamlined counselling process ensured 100%
in various domains like engineering, medical, compliance with state/ centre policies. All the steps also led to the implementation of
architecture, pharmacy, agriculture, management, involved in the process are rolled out in the form a common selection process across
etc. catering to over 89 lakh candidates from 8th/ universities. The stakeholders can
10th pass to Post Graduates. of sub-modules. Personalized institute master as
Counselling and admission services have per eligibility for choice filling is provided to the now conveniently participate in
transformed manifolds since their inception in the candidate through a configurable and customizable the admission process for higher
form of manual OCR forms. Services have brought solution. External payment gateway integration for education.
significant changes to the counselling process which leading banking services enables instant payment
involved manual processing of forms along with the and confirmation for form submission. MIS reports
offline mode of payment. The entire process needed empower daily monitoring of seat occupancy. The Dr. Neeta Verma
significant time efforts and manpower requirements seat matrix for the current academic year and policy Director General, NIC
for postal work, application scrutiny, and document guidelines are updated by participating institutes.
submission. The candidate was also required to The process starts with the candidate registration
report to counselling centres for different stages. and online fee payment. Candidate has to select e-Counselling Process
Currently, the process has been digitized using institute/ course from a master list created as per
emerging technologies providing the feasibility his/ her eligibility criteria. A mock counselling round Onboarding Process
to apply from anywhere anytime. Academic is carried out to provide the probable institute and • Rules Configuration
parameters are evaluated for assessment of Business rules defined by the user are
candidate application and custom business rules course to the candidate as per last year’s opening configured in the system to define the project
are developed to align the eligibility test with and closing rank. Seat allotment is done in multiple lifecycle. At this stage, candidate parameters having
institutional goals. In order to conduct a holistic rounds with provisions for seat up-gradation and
review of applications, stringent regulatory checks seat locking. Introduction of Spot round ensured direct implications on the counselling process and
and exception handling algorithms have been 100% seat occupancy. Documents are uploaded by eligibility criteria are identified to fine-tune seat
introduced. The system has been designed to the candidates for online verification by the officials allotment algorithms.
handle parallel execution of multiple counselling. and reporting.

Forms? Streamlined Step IITs
College? by Step Process NITs

Course?
Catering to candidates Medical Colleges
from 8th pass to
postgraduates

Eligibility? Multiple courses including engineering, GFTIs
Medical, Management, Architecture,
Criteria? Pharmacy, Agriculture, Hotel Management
Centre/State
Funded institutions
Counselling & Admission
Service

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