New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will start inviting applications for its undergraduate courses for the session 2022-23 from September 11. The total intake capacity of the 23 IITs is 16,598 seats. 

The admission to IITs is done on the basis of JEE Advanced Test. JEE Advanced 2022 was conducted on August 28 and the results will be declared on September 11, 2022. 

According to the official list of the individual IITs intake capacity released by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) early on Thursday, this year the total seat intake capacity has increased by 360 seats. 

While most old IITs maintained the total seats from last year, the additional seats have been approved in ten of the newer institutes, including, IIT Mandi, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Patna, Pallakad and Dharwad, among others.

“Most of the older IITs have been asked to ensure zero seat vacancy first, only then opt for increasing seats. Moreover, most of the older IITs have been struggling with space to accommodate their existing students on campus, so increasing the intake capacity is out of bounds,” said an official from IIT Kharagpur

From conducting just three rounds of seat allotment until 2015, JoSAA increased it to six rounds in 2016 in order to avoid seat vacancies in IITs. However, in 2017, 2018 and 2019, seven rounds of admissions were conducted and still almost all IITs—old and new—had one or more seats vacant by the end of the common admission rounds. Almost 300 seats had remained vacant after six admission rounds across 23 IITs in 2019 which were re-allotted in the seventh and final rounds.

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