hello aspirant,

YES, you have to pay some fees for the allotment of college in JOSAA Counselling. JoSAA counselling is not free . General/Open category candidates are required to pay a fee of Rs 45,000, whereas SC, Gen-PwD, ST, OBC-NCL-PwD, ST-PwD and SC-PwD have to pay Rs 20,000 through e-challan or through SBI net banking to appear in the counselling.

Further, to know more about the JOSAA Counselling, you can follow the below mentioned link to know more about it in detail : https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/josaa-counselling

I hope that this will help.