Hello Aspirant

Congratulation for your hardwork has paid of. As per your query, you can easily grab a seat in Kolkata or Chennai Campus of FDDI even if you are in general category. Hope you find this answer useful. All the best.

Hey there!

FDDI or footwear designing and development institute  conducts All India selection test or AIST to offer admission to interested candidates in professional programs in Footwear, Retail, Leather goods and accessory design and Fashion design on the basis of their performance in AIST.These  are the programs offered at FDDI.

• BDes (Footwear Design & Production)
• BDes (Leather Goods & Accessories Design)
• BDes (Retail & Fashion Merchandise)
• BDes (Fashion Design)
• MDes (Footwear Design & Production)
• MDes (CAD)
• MBA(Retail & Fashion Merchandise)

There are 12 fully functional campuses, and the choice of campus  depends upon your rank  in AIST and the  department you choose.

A total of 1500 seats will be alloted to qualified candidates all across  India. The last merit rank admitted in FDDI Noida in 2018  in LGAD was 305

In B.des RFM was 800 and  in Footwear and Fashion was  300 and 380 respectively.

So, yes  Kolkata and Chennai should be available at this rank.

All the best.