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RourkelaProf. Sunil Kr SarangiDirector andChairman, CSAB-2013

Date: 11th July, 2013

Message from Chairman, CSAB - 2013

Dear Students,

The first round of seat allotment has been completed. I congratulate all the successfulcandidates and welcome all of them to the wonderful world of higher technical education.

In the process of allotment, there has been an unfortunate mix up yesterday. Some of you mayhave observed that your allotted branch or institute has changed. Some of you who did not havean allotment yesterday may have got one today. But for some, depending on your choices, youmight have seen your name in yesterday's list but are surprised to find it missing today, Before Iproceed further, on behalf of the CSAB-2013 admission I beg you my unqualified apology.

The mix up happened because of a computer glitch, which in turn originated from the fact thatthe name of "Orissa" state has changed to "Odisha". While the CBSE data base uses the oldname, the CSAB data base uses the new one, and they both have assigned codes accordingly.Thus, the information, specifically the data on "home state" quota of 50% NIT in seat allotmentdid not match properly. The mismatch between the two data bases led to wrong allotment whichran across the whole spectrum of institutes and branches. There were also a couple of minorglitches involving UP and Uttarakhand students, and involving dual (architecture andengineering) seat allocation.

The flaws have now been corrected. The correct seat allocation is displayed on CSAB websiteand has been made available to all Resource Centres (RCs). I ONCE AGAIN SEEKFORGIVENESS FROM ALL STUDENTS, PARTICULARLY FROM THOSE WHO WEREERRONEOUSLY ALLOTTEED SEATS YESTERDAY. I sincerely hope that all of you who lostyour seats (albeit erroneously alloted) because of the correction will secure seats in the secondround of allotment.

With best wishes,

~~Sunil Kr Sarangi