Calcutta University has issued a notice detailing the procedure to be followed for admission of general category students to its four-year BTech courses from the 2024-25 academic session under the domicile quota.

The university last month announced the introduction of an 80 per cent domicile quota.

A CU official said 80 per cent of the 424 BTech seats have been reserved for candidates domiciled in Bengal. The university admits students to its BTech programme through the state joint entrance examination.

Till last year, the engineering seats for general category students in the state-funded CU were open to students from all states.

“As the students who have been allotted seats in the first round of centralised online admission by the JEE board will enrol from July 19 to 22, the university has announced the steps to be followed in regard to the admission of students under the domicile quota,” the official said.

The university has uploaded on its website the proforma of the domicile certificate that has to be submitted.

The notice specifies the criteria which make one eligible to be treated as domiciled in Bengal.

It says: “Only those candidates will be treated as domicile of West Bengal who are either, a) residing in West Bengal continuously at least for the last ten years as on 31.12.2023, or b) whose parent(s) is/are a permanent resident(s) of West Bengal having a permanent address within the state of West Bengal.”

A candidate must produce in original any two of the documents of the parents — voter ID card, Aadhaar card, passport and ration card.

The notice specifies who is the competent authority — the district magistrate or additional district magistrate — to issue domicile certificates.

“We have referred to what the JEE board has been following for the domicile policy. But in November last year, when the board published its information bulletin, CU had not decided on the domicile policy. So the university has issued a notice detailing the steps that candidates have to follow during admission,” said CU registrar Debasish Das.

Jadavpur University had in 2019 introduced a domicile policy reserving 90 per cent of its BTech seats for “home students”.

All students who will be allotted seats at CU by the JEE board after the second and mop-up rounds of seat allotment will enrol from July 26 to 29 and from August 3 to 5, respectively.

“They will follow the same procedure for admission under the domicile policy,” Das said.