The Bengal joint entrance examination board will hold online counselling for admission to BTech courses from October 14 for those who have cracked the JEE-Main exams, which were deferred because of the Covid pandemic and were held in September.

Online counselling for admission to 141 seats in architecture in the engineering colleges will also start on October 14, said an official of the JEE board.

The counselling for students selected through JEE-Main will be separate from the counselling being held for candidates who have cracked the exams conducted by the Bengal JEE board.

The NITs and IIEST, Shibpur, are among the institutes that admit students entirely through JEE-Main. Ten per cent of the seats in Bengal’s private engineering colleges are set aside for those whose names figure on the JEE-Main merit list. The JEE board will hold counselling for those seats in private colleges.

A notice issued by the JEE board says that the first round of registration and uploading of documents for the counselling will continue from October 14 to 19. The candidates can upload corrected documents from October 14 to 20 and the documents will be verified at virtual reporting centres from October 14 to 21.

“Choice filling” and “locking” by candidates will take place from October 14 to 21.

The first round of seat allotment results will be announced on October 23 and this will be followed by “seat acceptance” and payment of provisional admission fees by the candidates from October 23 to October 27 (6pm).

The second and final round of seat allotment results will be announced on October 29.

The three-round online counselling for admission to the BTech programme for those who had cracked the Bengal joint entrance examinations, which were held in February, started on August 12 and will continue till October 28.

The decision to postpone the JEE-Main exams, usually held in April, because of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted the state board to stagger the counselling, JEE board chairman Malayendu Saha.