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Ram Mani Rai 20th Feb, 2019
There is no exact number provided that this many of seats are there is NITs
But On average 400 seats are there in every NIT
That means 31*400=12400. These much are seats are available included every quota.
Kshitij Anand 19th Feb, 2019

According to the JoSAA seat matrix that was declared by the JoSAA, there are 119 IITs and ISM, Dhanbad and they have 10,096 seats for the undergraduate engineering programmes. IIT, Kharagpur has the maximum number of seats of 1341. It is followed by the IIT, BHU with a total number of 1090 seats and 1030 seats of IIT Roorkee. In all, IIT offers 4944 seats in the General category for all the engineering programmes.

About 17,390 seats are allocated to 30 NITs. The highest number of seats has been allocated to NIT, Raipur and this is followed by MANIT, Bhopal with 937 seats and NIT, Rourkela has 900 seats. About 8,548 seats of NITs are reserved for the candidates who belonged to the General category.

Out of 2,228 seats that are given to 18 IIITs, 1,084 seats have been reserved for the General Category candidates. There are 3,741 seats for the GFTIs and out of this, 2,156 seats are reserved for the Open category. This is the standard way of providing admissions to all the students.

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Shiv Kumar Gupta 19th Feb, 2019
Hello Chennu,
National Institute of Technology (NITs) total no if seats is 17967.
About 17,967 seats are allocated to nearly 30 NITs. The highest number of seats has been allocated to NIT, Raipur and this is followed by MANIT, Bhopal with 937 seats and NIT, Rourkela has 900 seats.
Thank you.
Sunil Su. 19th Feb, 2019
hello aspirant,
well every year the number of seats for various NIT'S varies, according to categories wise
  • here is the approximate number of seats reserved for different types of NIT'S
  • The total number of All india quota seats are 7283
  • The total number of home state quota seats are 7272.
thank you
Shivam Gautam 19th Feb, 2019
Hello Dear
Since there are 31 National Institute of Technology in India in which NIT at Andhra Pradesh is the newest one . There are approximately 16k seats in the 31 NITs of India in which Bhopal and Rourkela has the maximum seats .

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/iits-iiits-and-gftis-add-1558-btech-seats-nits-reduce-145
Thanks
Shanu Anand 19th Feb, 2019
Hello aspirant,
Total seats available in all NITs are 15485 including both home state and other state quota.

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