The Central Counselling Board, which has been shifted to the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), is finalising the provisions to accommodate two recent decisions of the HRD Ministry regarding the implementation of the OBC quota and abolition of quota for other states in National Institutes of Technology (NITs).

Fifty per cent of NIT seats are reserved for students of the state in which the institute is located. The remaining seats were till now reserved for students from other states and Union Territories. Following the new order, these 50 per cent seats will be given to students belonging to other states based on their AIEEE rank.

Director of MNNIT, Professor AB Sammadar, said: “Counselling software is being accordingly adjusted under the supervision of a technical committee chaired by Prof Krishna Kant.”

Following the HRD ministry’s directives, 10,813 seats in various NITs, IIITs and affiliated colleges and institutions, which were reserved for other states, have been converted into open seats.

Of these, 7,792 seats belong to general category, 138 for physically handicapped, 1,137 for SCs, 23 for SCs (physically handicapped), 584 for STs, 11 for ST (physically handicapped), 1,109 for OBCs and 19 for OBCs (physically handicapped).