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Engineering Admissions in India for NRIs with & without DASA/CIWG:

Getting admitted to engineering colleges in India is a hectic process as there are thousands and lakhs of applicants for a few numbers of seats. The process becomes even more cumbersome for students living abroad. The students’ living abroad fall into three categories such as

• Person of Indian Origin (PIO) are the non-Indian resident who is given a 15-year visa but it has been discontinued later.
• Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) are those non-Indian citizens who are given lifetime visa to live and work in India with a minimum possible amount of restrictions.
• Non-Resident Indian (NRI) is the legal citizen of India living in another country due to work and other unavoidable reasons.

DASA is a short form for Direct Admission of Students Abroad. DASA is a scheme launched by Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India for admission of NRI into premier Institutions of India. The admission under the DASA scheme into UG and PG educational programs for the year 2020-21 is coordinated by Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India.

There are a few colleges which offer admission into Under Graduate programmes in Engineering/ Architecture/ Planning to the NRI students under DASA scheme. There are about 29 NITs, 3 IIITs, 3 SPAs and 10 CFTIs under the DASA scheme.

Will you be applying for DASA / CIWG 2021 or years after that? You must then prepare for JEE Main.

List of 29 National Institute of Technology (NITs) & the number of seats offered in them under DASA:

1.   National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura

      Seats offered -121

2.   Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad

      Seats offered -123

3.   National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh

      Seats offered -35

4.   Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

      Seats offered -94

5.   National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala

      Seats offered -94

6.   National Institute of Technology, Delhi

      Seats offered -27

7.   National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal

      Seats offered -32

8.   National Institute of Technology, Goa

      Seats offered -14

9.   National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh

      Seats offered -34

10. Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan

      Seats offered -55

11. National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab

      Seats offered -77

12. National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

      Seats offered -25

13. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana

      Seats offered -35

14. National Institute of Technology, Manipur

      Seats offered -27

15. National Institute of Technology, Mizoram

      Seats offered -23

16. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra

      Seats offered -62

17. National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar

      Seats offered -89

18. National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, Karaikkal

      Seats offered -72

19. National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh

      Seats offered -28

20. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa

      Seats offered -27

21. National Institute of Technology, Sikkim

      Seats offered -111

22. National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam

      Seats offered -12

23. National Institute of Technology, Srinagar

      Seats offered -53

24. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat

      Seats offered -104

25. National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Karnataka

      Seats offered -111

26. National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu

      Seats offered -116

27. National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana

      Seats offered -111

28. National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya

      Seats offered -5

29. National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand

      Seats offered -25

List of 4 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) & number of seats offered in them under DASA:

1.  Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, (Jhalwa & Amethi Campus), UP

     Seats offered -10

2.  Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, MP

     Seats offered -12

3.  Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Chennai

     Seats offered -9

4.  Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara, Gandhinagar

     Seats offered - 14

List of 3 Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) & number of seats offered in them under DASA:

1.  School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal

     Seats offered -15

2.  School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

     Seats offered -12

3.  School of Planning & Architecture, Vijayawada

     Seats offered -17

 List of 10 centrally Funded and Premier Technical Institutes of India (CFTIs)number of seats offered in them under DASA:

1.  PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh

     Seats offered -75

2.  Delhi Technological University, Delhi

     Seats offered -88

3.  Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

     Seats offered -21

4.  Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab

     Seats offered -72

5.  National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand

     Seats offered -39

6.  Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar

     Seats offered -108

7.  National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Aurangabad

     Seats offered -9

8.  Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Delhi

     Seats offered -29

9.  Tezpur University, Assam

     Seats offered –80

10. Indian Maritime University

      Seats offered –12

11. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir

      Seats offered -20

12. The University Institute of Engineering & Technology (UIET), Punjab University, Chandigarh

      Seats offered -58

13. The University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology (UICET), Punjab University, Chandigarh

      Seats offered -19

14. UIET Punjab University Swamy Sarvanand Giri Regional Centre (UIET PUSSRC), Hoshiarpur, Punjab

     Seats offered -20

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

The NRI students are required to meet all the eligibility factors like Age, Residential Status, Academic eligibility, Marks required in 12^th, SAT Subjects applicant needs to do and lastly, the minimum SAT score.

The students living in Middle Eastern Country are also eligible for CIWG scheme. CIWG is a short form for Children of Indian Workers in Gulf. There are 8 Countries which fall into this scheme i.e. Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Iran, and Iraq. The students falling into this category are required to submit their residential proof in the form of a parent working in a Gulf/Parent Visa/Parents work permit/Certificate from the organization parent has been working for.

The one-third of the admission quota is given to Children of Indian Workers in Gulf (CIWGs) and the two-thirds of the admission quota is given to Non-CIWG scheme (UG students from the rest of the world). There are about 2350 admissions done in India under DASA scheme. OTE- the UG students are eligible for DASA scheme when his or her parents are living in abroad for more than 5 years. Otherwise, the students are not eligible for the admission via this scheme. The scheme has simplified the process of B.Tech admission in NITs, IIITs, SPAs, and other centrally funded and Premier Technical Institutes of India other than Indian Institute of Technology’s (IITs).

Loved the institutes and if you fall under DASA/CIWG then refer this DASA Guide to get to know more. This guide illustrates everything on DASA.

There are many other colleges and universities such as K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Andhra University, ST. Joseph's College of Engineering, Anna University, Jadavpur University, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Institute of Chemical Technology, Birla Institute of Technology & Science – Pilani and many more.

Good Luck. Have a great career ahead.

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