Hello Aspirant,

See supernumerary seats in JOSAA counselling are nothing but some additional seats added for tie results. Let us understand it in detail, suppose you and your friend got same rank even after implementing all the tie-breaking criterion then to remove partiality you both should get same seat if both have the same preference and rank but seats are limited so an additional seat is allotted to either your friend or to you. And this kind of seats are only available for females not for other genders.

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hello Pari,

Hope you are doing well.

Female Supernumerary seats are the additional seats created to accommodate more female students , without compromising on the already existing number of seats.

Additional supernumerary seats have been created in NITs to increase enrolment of Female candidates.

In order to ensure increase female enrolment in B.Tech. programmes of NITs for maintaining 20% strength, the intake of female students has been increased by creation of the supernumerary seats in the academic year 2020-21. Of the 1,036 seats to be filled in B.Tech/ B.Arch programmes, 827 are gender neutral and 209 female only seats. Here, the 209 seats are supernumerary seats.

Hope this answers your query. All the best!