The IIT Bhubaneswar organized an Open House, JEE Counselling and Interaction meeting on June 18 for the benefit of IIT aspirants, in particular, those who qualified in JEE (Advanced) 2019 and for those who will be appearing in 2020.
More than 150 students/parents actively participated in the counselling session.
The session started with welcome note by the Chairman, JEE Cell, IIT Bhubaneswar.
Director IIT Bhubaneswar Prof RV Rajakumar welcomed the students and parents to IIT Bhubaneswar and congratulated the JEE (Adv.) qualified students for their commendable achievement. He gave an in-depth overview into the evolution of the IIT system in India including a brief talk on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation IITs, and IIT education in general. He also mentioned in detail about the philosophy of IIT as they believe in not just creating an engineer by profession but a noteworthy personality.
This was followed by an introduction to programmes of study by Prof PK Sahu, Dean, Academic Affairs and presentation on general procedures to be followed for admission and counselling at IITs by Dr C Bhamidipati, Chairman JEE Cell, IIT Bhubaneswar.
Also present at the event was Dr VR Pedireddi, Dean, Student Affairs, IIT Bhubaneswar.
The inclusion of supernumerary seats for female students from 2018 as per the policy of the Central Government, aimed at bringing gender balance in the engineering education was highlighted. The girl students were also counselled by the JEE help desk team to fill as many choices as possible to maximize their chances of getting a seat in IITs. Various schemes of financial assistance including “Vidyalaxmi” scheme introduced last year by MHRD, Government of India including the Kalinga Sikshya Saathi Yojana by Government of Odisha for Odisha based students were presented by the SBI team at the event.
IIT Bhubaneswar would conduct Reporting Centre (RC) activity for JEE Advanced 2019 for qualified candidates in its campus at Argul from June 28 to July 19. Candidates allotted seats in any of the IITs can do their reporting, document verification and accept their seats at IIT Bhubaneswar during this course of time. More details can be found on the website: http://josaa.nic.in, said a release.