JEE (main) seat allotment for round 1 announced, website crashes

Over 12.4 lakh candidates, who appeared for JEE (main) this April and are awaiting admission in NITs and other centrally-funded institutions, had a tough time on Monday as the website of the Central Seal Allocation Board (CSAB) crashed as soon as the result had been uploaded. The board declared the allocation of seats around 8pm.

"Since we weren't told at what time it (seat allocation) would be announced, I stuck to my computer screen from the morning. After the whole day of stress and panic, when they finally uploaded the data, the link to it crashed," rued a candidate, who had desperately been waiting to see where she would get admission.

Earlier, CSAB had extended the deadline to fill options up to 8am on July 14 due to revision in rankings. The anxious candidates were extremely critical of the central agency's casual and below-the-mark performance.

CSAB officials didn't respond to calls. The main counselling portal for engineering and architecture streams, http://csab.nic.in/csab2014/home.aspx, didn't offer any clarification either. The link was not working at many places till the time of going to press. Many students complained it was extremely slow. The website is handled by National Informatics Centre.

CSAB is the competent authority overseeing admissions in 30 NITs, 10 IITs and nearly 20 other centrally-funded engineering institutes.