Bhubaneswar: IIT Bhubaneswar successfully organised an Open House JEE Counselling and Interaction meeting on June 18, for the benefit of IIT aspirants, especially those who have qualified JEE (Advanced) 2019 and for those who will be appearing in 2020.
More than 150 students and parents participated.
IIT Bhubaneswar Director, Prof R.V. Rajakumar welcomed the students and parents and congratulated students who have cracked JEE (Advanced) for their commendable achievement.
He gave an in-depth insight into the evolution of the IIT system in India including a brief talk on the first, second and third generation IITs and IIT education in general.
He also mentioned in detail about the philosophy of IITs as they believe in not just creating an engineer by profession but a noteworthy personality.
He emphasised that the UG education in IITs is at par with other global institutions. He also briefly spoke about the rapid strides being made by IIT Bhubaneswar on several fronts, including education, infrastructure, research and about the innovative steps such as foreign origin faculty engagement.
Dean, Academic Affairs, Prof P.K. Sahu gave a talk about the programme.
The inclusion of supernumerary seats for women students from 2018 as per the policy of the Central Government, aimed at bringing gender balance in the engineering education was highlighted. The women students were also counselled by the JEE help desk team to fill as many choices as possible to maximise their chances of getting a seat in the IITs. Various schemes of financial assistance including “Vidyalaxmi” scheme introduced last year by the 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 will 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 .
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