Engineering counselling for OJEE qualifiers begins today

Bhubaneswar: OJEE B Tech counselling begins today for which students can register as per their rank in the JEE Main exam. The engineering counselling begins at 11 am today.

This year 42,000 students had appeared for the exam. For the counselling today, students who qualified JEE Main exam can get registration done and lock choices on OJEE’s website following which temporary seats would be allotted to them, as per the new guidelines.

“After temporary seats allotment, students can take part in counselling and deposit the part admission fee, Rs 25,000. So, all the candidates will not have to appear at the nodal centres,” said OJEE chairman Tushar Nath.

The deposited fees will remain with OJEE till the completion of the third phase of admissions. The final list of admission will be published only after completion of the third phase of counselling. Then the students will have to pay the rest amount to the colleges in which they get enrolled. In the meantime, they can switch streams and colleges.