NEW DELHI: Entrance to the premier engineering colleges-Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will completely go online from 2018. "Around 2.2 lakh students were eligible to write the JEE (Advanced) this year, with the quota increasing by 20,000 over 2016. The number of students eligible to take the test climbed from 1.5 lakh in 2015 to 2 lakh in 2016 due to an increase in IIT seats. As many as 1.72 lakh students registered for the ‘Advanced’ round of the entrance examination, of which 1.59 lakh — up from 1.47 lakh in 2016 — took the test for the 10,000-plus seats across the 23 IITs. It will be logistically easier and we have adequate infrastructure available to conduct the exams online," told Ramamurthi to ET.

Source: Economic Times August 20, 2017 15:00 UTC