PART 2 :

BDes Admissions

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21. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPLYING FOR BDes

To apply for admission to the BDes programmes of the participating institutes, i.e., IIT
Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, and IIITDM Jabalpur, an applicant is
required to fulfil ALL the following three criteria simultaneously.

Criterion 1 – Age limit:

The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1998 if belonging to the
OPEN/EWS/OBC-NCL category and, on or after October 1, 1993 if belonging to the SC, ST
or PwD category.

Criterion 2 – UCEED qualification:

The candidate should have qualified, i.e., obtained a rank, in UCEED 2023.

Criterion 3 – Qualifying examination:

The candidate should have passed in all five subjects in the qualifying examination (Class
XII or equivalent) in 2022 or 2023. Those who appeared for the first time in their qualifying
examination in 2021 or earlier are NOT eligible.

Candidates from the Science Stream with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as subjects
are eligible to apply to all the five participating institutes (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT
Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, and IIITDM Jabalpur). Candidates from any other stream
(Science without Mathematics or Physics or Chemistry, Commerce, and Arts & Humanities)
are eligible to apply to IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and IIT Hyderabad. For admission to BDes at
IIITDM Jabalpur, only students with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics/Biology at 10+2 can
apply. Students from Arts or Humanities at 10+2 are not eligible to apply for BDes
admissions at IIITDM Jabalpur. Candidates from the Science Stream with Physics,
Chemistry and Mathematics as subjects are eligible to apply to IIT Guwahati. Candidates
from any other stream (Science without Mathematics or Physics or Chemistry, Commerce,
and Arts & Humanities) are NOT eligible to apply to IIT Guwahati.

The candidates appearing for their qualifying examination (Class XII or equivalent) in 2023
should ensure that, (a) all parts of their final examination are completed by the date of
application for admission, and (b) proof of having passed the qualifying examination with
required eligibility is submitted by September 30, 2023 to the admitting institute.

If a qualifying Examination Board awards only letter grades without providing information
on the passing grade on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the
Board specifying the passing grade and upload it along with the grade sheet. In case such a
certificate is not provided, the decision taken by the UCI Committee will be final.

The criteria, as specified above, are applicable “in toto” to all the applicants including
foreign nationals. Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary with a cap of 10% of

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the total seats in a program. Applications from foreign nationals holding OCI/PIO cards are
considered under the OPEN category and they are outside the ambit of reservation of seats
under the EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, and ST categories.

SEAT MATRIX AS PER PREVIOUS ACADEMIC CALENDAR (2022-2023)

OBC-
Open EWS SC ST TOTAL
NCL

IIT Bombay 15 4 10 5 3 37

IIT Delhi 7 2 6 3 2 20

IIT Guwahati 23 6 15 8 4 56

IIT Hyderabad 9 2 5 3 1 20

IIITDM Jabalpur 26 7 18 10 5 66

TOTAL 80 21 54 29 15 199

• PwD reservations @ 5% will be horizontal. The allocation of seats in the PwD

category will be displayed along with the seat matrix of academic year 2023-24.

• Candidate may refer to the final seat matrix for the academic year 2023-24 from the
official UCEED 2023 website (www.uceed.iitb.ac.in) at the time of application for
BDes admissions.

• During the counselling process, e-mail or phone queries regarding the status of
vacant seats at various institutes will NOT be entertained. All the information
regarding seat allotment shall be published on the official UCEED 2023 website, as
per the schedule.

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22. RESERVATION OF SEATS

Indian nationals belonging to certain categories are admitted under the seats reserved for
them in accordance with the rules of the Government of India. The categories and the extent
of reservation are as follows:

• The category chosen by a candidate at the time of registration for UCEED 2023 will be
final for the exam and admissions.

• Candidates belonging to the EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD categories will be
declared as qualified on the basis of a relaxed criterion [see EVALUATION].

• Candidates must note that the benefit of reservation will be given to them subject to
verification of documents at the appropriate stage. If it is discovered at any stage that
a candidate has used a false/fake/invalid/incorrect document, or has furnished false,
incorrect or incomplete information, in order to avail the benefit of reservation, then
such a candidate shall be excluded from all admission processes. In case such a
candidate has already been given admission, then the admission shall stand
cancelled.

• If the PwD certificate is not valid and the candidate has availed the compensatory
time and/or availed the services of an amanuensis, s/he cannot be rolled back to the
OPEN category. His/her candidature will be cancelled.

• If a category certificate is not valid then the candidate will be rolled back to GEN if
the candidate meets the qualifying requirements for a GEN category. If he/she does
not meet the qualifying/eligibility requirement of a GEN category candidate then
his/her candidature will be cancelled. The seat allotted (if any) will be cancelled. In
case such a candidate has already been given admission, then the admission shall
stand cancelled.

• Each candidate must submit a valid and updated certificate while submitting his/her
application for BDes admission to avail reservation. Seat allocation will be based on
the All India Rank (merit order), reservation category and seat availability in each
institute at the time of seat allocation.

• Economically Weaker Sections (EWS): 10% of seats. EWS certificates issued only from
April 1, 2022 onwards are accepted.

• Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL) – 27% of

seats in the course. The name of the backward class should be in the current central
list of OBCs (www.ncbc.nic.in). OBCs present in the state list, but not covered in the
central list will not be entitled to claim the benefit of reservation. OBC-NCL
certificates issued only from April 1, 2022 onwards are accepted for the examination.
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 • All candidates must ensure that they possess valid and updated certificates at the
time of applying for admission to any of these programmes.

• Scheduled Caste (SC): 15% of seats in the course.

• Scheduled Tribe (ST): 7.5% of seats in the course.

• Candidates belonging to the creamy layer of OBC are NOT entitled for reservation.
Such candidates are treated as belonging to the Open (i.e., unreserved) category.

• The benefit of reservation will be given only to those castes and tribes that are
mentioned in the respective central list of corresponding states published by the
Government of India. (https://socialjustice.gov.in/common/76750 and
https://tribal.nic.in/ST/LatestListofScheduledtribes.pdf).

• PwD candidates: 5% reservations for PwD candidates, which will be horizontal.

Candidates with benchmark disabilities as per RPwD Act 2016 are eligible for
reservation in this category. Unfilled PwD seats (if any) will be reallotted to the
respective category.

• Seats remaining vacant under the SC, ST, EWS, and OBC-NCL categories shall NOT
be allotted to candidates belonging to other categories.

• There are no spot rounds of admissions in IITs, after completing the counselling.
IIITDM Jabalpur may conduct a spot round of admissions at the institutional level, if
there are any vacant seats after completion of the counselling.

• Foreign Candidates: Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or
naturalization) will be considered as FOREIGN NATIONALS. All the seats allotted to
the foreign national candidates will be supernumerary with a cap of 10% of the total
number of seats in each program. These candidates are outside the ambit of
reservation of seats under the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and PwD
categories/sub-categories.

• OCI/PIO Candidates: At the time of seat allocation, the OCI/PIO candidates will be
considered for the seats in the OPEN category as per the judgement passed by the
Hon'ble Supreme Court of India with respect to the Writ Petition (Civil) 891 / 2021,
dated February 03, 2023. The OCI/PIO candidates will be included in the Common
Rank List, and/or CRL-PwD list as applicable, subject to qualifying the UCEED 2023.
The OCI/PIO candidates are not entitled to the benefit of reservation under the GEN-
EWS, OBC-NCL, SC or ST categories for the allocation of seats.

• Identity Proof: Identity proof of the candidate is required in the form of Citizenship
Certificate/Foreign Passport and/or OCI/PIO Card, where applicable.

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