The board had suggested rolling out the domicile policy from the next academic year. The domicile policy seeks to reserve 90 per cent of the engineering seats at JU in the general category for students who have passed their plus-II board examinations from Bengal. A department official said the JEE board was a body for conducting the exam and the e-counselling for admission to BTech programmes in engineering institutions. The board official, however, explained their reason for advising against implementing the domicile policy at this stage. The higher education department on May 29 had sent a letter to the JEE board chairman asking him to introduce the domicile policy from 2019-20 academic year, as has been resolved by the university’s executive council.

Source: The Telegraph June 11, 2019 00:56 UTC