JENPAS-UG 2020 Counselling Dates Published WBJEEB
Notice Regarding Counselling JENPAS – UG 2020.
In view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation it is decided that WBJEEB will not conduct the JENPAS-UG 2020 Examination.
Instead, WBJEEB will conduct centralised online counselling and provisional admission on the basis of class 12 result for the candidates who have already applied for JENPAS-UG 2020.
Detailed notification given below, which was published on 8th October, 2020.
Candidates are advised to keep scanned PDF copies following documents are ready for uploading during registration for counselling which is going to October 2020.
Important Documents:
01.10th Admit Card / Birth Certificate for verification of Date of Birth.
02.12th marksheet.
- WB Domicile candidates – Domicile Certificate.
- SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B candidates – Respective Category Certificate.
- PWD candidates – PWD certificates
- Ews candidate – ews certificate.
The State Government vide West Bengal Act XIV of 2014 enacted The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board Act, 2014 and empowered the Board to conduct Common Entrance Examinations for selection of candidates for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate Professional, Vocational and General Degree Courses in the State of West Bengal and to conduct counselling on-line or otherwise adopting a single-window approach,
And whereas, JENPAS-2020 examination could not be held due to ongoing unprecedented pandemic and the Department of Health and family Welfare, Government of West Bengal entrusted WBJEEB to conduct centralized online counselling based on 10+2 marks,
And whereas, WBJEEB will conduct centralized online counselling for the applicants of JENPAS(UG)-2020 based on their 10+2 marks for admission to B.Sc.-Nursing and eight other Allied Health Sc. courses in Colleges/ Institutes in the State of West Bengal for the academic session 2020-2021.
SCHEDULE OF COUNSELLING FOR JENPAS (UG) -2020.
All dates are tentative and can be changed in special circumstances
| SL | Name of the activity | Dates |
| 01 | 1st round of registration, uploading of documents | 16.10.2020 to 21.10 2020 |
| 02 | Uploading of corrected documents by candidates | 16.10.2020 to 22.10 2020 |
| 03 | Choice filling and locking by candidates | 16.10.2020 to 22.10 2020 |
| 04 | Declaration of Rank | 02.11.2020 |
| 05 | 1st round of seat allotment result | 05.11.2020 |
| 06 | Verification of PwD status at IPGMER | 06.11.2020 |
| 07 | Seat acceptance (with freeze or
up-gradation) and payment of |
05.11.2020 to 09.11.2020 (6 P.M.) |
| 08 | 2nd round of seat allotment result | 12.11.2020 |
| 09 | Verification of PwD status at IPGMER | 13.11.2020 |
| 10 | Seat acceptance and payment of provisional admission fees by the candidate |
12.11.2020 to 17.11.2020 (6 P.M.) |
| 11 | Physical reporting to institutes | Within 19.11.2020 |
The rules and guidelines for e-counselling and admission process are provided hereunder. Candidates registering for e-counselling must go through the Notification and notices published in this regard very carefully. Once registered, it will be construed that the candidates agree to all the terms and conditions mentioned.
Rules and Guidelines:
a) The counselling will be in centralized online process only.
b) The combined counselling will be for admission in the following courses,
(1) B.Sc. Nursing (Bachelor of Nursing)
(2) B.P.T. (Bachelor of Physiotherapy)
(3) B.A.S.L.P. (Bachelor of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology)
(4) B.M.L.T (Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Technology)
(5) B.Sc. CCT (B.Sc. in Critical Care Technology)
(6) B.Sc. OTT (B.Sc. in Operation Theatre Technology)
(7) B.Sc. PT (B.Sc. in Perfusion Technology)
(8) B.Sc. PA (B.Sc. in Physician Assistant)
c) All candidates who successfully applied for JENPAS (UG) – 2020 and paid
application fees can register for counselling.
d) There is no separate registration fee for counselling.
e) There will be two rounds of normal counselling and one round of mop-up
counselling (if decided so by the Appropriate Authority).
f) Vacant seats under any of the reserved categories i.e. SC, ST, OBC-A and OBCB and PwD shall not be converted to general/unreserved category in any
round of counselling.
g) Vacant Seats under the EWS category will not be converted to
general/unreserved category.
Document Verification:
The documents uploaded by candidates will be verified by Virtual Reporting Centres (VRCs)
a) When all documents are accepted, the candidate will receive a SMS.
b) If one or more document(s) is/are rejected, or illegible, the candidate will receive a SMS; he/she can log in and view the reason of rejection. Accordingly, the candidate must upload corrected document within the stipulated date and time.
c) In case the candidate fails to upload corrected and acceptable documents within the given date, WBJEEB will decide to convert candidate’s eligibility and/or category based on the last document uploaded.
d) Candidate can also contact the Help Desk (1800 1023 781, 1800 3450 050)for help/ clarification if required.
e) Candidate will be allotted a seat only according to the documents uploaded by him/her and accepted by VRC. For example, if a SC candidate is unable to upload an acceptable SC certificate, he/she will not be allotted any SC seat. He will be considered as a general candidate.
Choice filling:
a) During registration, once academic scores are given, the candidate can view all choices of institutes and courses available to him/her according his/her eligibility criteria based on the inputs provided by him/her.
b) The choices are shown in alphabetic order to make search easy.
c) Candidate can also search type of institute wise, course wise etc.
d) It is advised that the candidate selects maximum number of institutes/ courses to maximize the chance of allotment.
e) After selecting institutes/courses, the candidate will arrange his/her choices in order of his/her priority.
f) If a candidate does not give any choice, he/she will not be given any allotment.
g) If one or more documents are rejected during verification, some or all choices selected by the candidate may become invalid.
Choice locking:
a) Candidate must lock his/her choices within a pre-announced date. Candidate can also take a printout of his/her locked choices.
b) If a candidate fails/forgets to lock his/her choices within the pre-announced deadline, his/her last saved choices will be considered final and will be locked.
Ranking:
a) Merit ranks will be prepared based on a pseudo aggregate assigning weightage factors to different subjects according to the formula.
Pseudo aggregate = 6 X Biology score + 4 X Chemistry score + 2 X Physics score + 1 X English score.
b) In case of tie in the pseudo aggregate, it will be broken by the following rules,
(1) Higher marks in Biology
(2) Higher marks in Chemistry
(3) Higher marks in Physics
(4) Higher marks in English
(5) If tie exists even thereafter, same will be broken by the date of birth (DOB); the older candidate will be given preference over the younger one
c) Individual candidates will be able to view and download his/her Rank Card. WBJEEB does not publish any ranks/score in listed form.
d) The rank shall be in the name and style of ‘GMR’ (General Merit Rank)
e) Separate reserved category merit position will also be indicated for respective category of students e.g. SC Rank, ST Rank, OBC-A Rank, OBC-B Rank, PwD Rank, EWS Rank as applicable.
f) Counselling/allotment of seat/admission will be done based on GMR only (not on category ranks). Category ranks are only for information to candidates within the respective category.
g) Category ranks are generated based on the category information given by the candidates during online application. If during verification, any candidate’s claim is found invalid, his/her category rank will be cancelled and the candidate will be considered in general category with his/her GMR. Category ranks of other candidates will not be revised.
h) Another separate merit rank will be published in the name of ‘NMR’ for female candidates only for admission into B. Sc. – Nursing. Gender will be taken as it is declared by the candidate during online application. WBJEEB will not be responsible for any mistake committed by the candidate in declaring his/her gender during online application.
Eligibility criteria:
Eligibility and academic qualification criteria for appearing in JENPAS-UG-2020.
Eligibility criteria for appearing in JENPAS-UG-2020 (As intimated by the concerned Authorities) is given in the following table:
Citizenship Indian Indian Indian
Lower age limit (as on 31/12/2020): 17 Yrs.
Upper age limit (as on 31/12/2020):
Nursing,BPT – Nil
BASLP – 25 yrs
BMLT, CCT, OTT, PT, PA, Electro Physiology, RIS, Dialysis – 40year
Seat Matrix:
Information on seats offered through e-counselling in various institutions in various courses in various categories as provided by the DHS, Govt. of West Bengal and WBUHSC is given in the website.
Note that there may be other seats available in some institute/course which are not offered through e-counselling and hence are not shown in the seat matrix.
Seats Reservation:
Reservation of Seats for SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/PwD/EWS category of students: See Information Bulletin.
Candidates having OBC certificates dated before 31.12.2009 should have them re-validated from the issuing authority, with either category OBC-A or OBC-B is to be clearly mentioned.
SELF DECLARATION/UNDERTAKING IN LIEU OF DOMICILE CERTIFICATE:
I, Mr./Ms. ………………………………………………………………………………. did apply for JENPAS(UG)- 2020 (Appl. No……………………………………………) and have obtained a rank (GMR = ………………………….). I solemnly affirm that I have been residing in West Bengal for last 10 years till 31.12.2019 / my parents are permanent resident of West Bengal (strike out whichever is not applicable). Our permanent residential address is,
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Due to the COVID pandemic situation, I am not able to arrange the domicile certificate at this moment and hence in lieu of the domicile certificate, this selfdeclaration/UNDERTAKING may be accepted for the time being for the purpose of
counselling for JENPAS (UG) -2020 only.
I undertake that I shall submit the formal domicile certificate at the time of physical reporting to the institute where my admission is finalized. Also, I agree that if I fail to submit the formal domicile certificate at the time of physical reporting, my admission will be cancelled. I shall not hold West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board responsible if my
admission is cancelled due to my failure of submitting the formal domicile certificate.
Signature of the candidate and date
Eligibility Criteria:
Important information regarding eligibility:
WBJEEB do neither verify the information provided by any candidate during online application nor verify any certificate of date of birth, domicile, income, reservation category, academic qualification etc. for deciding the eligibility of the candidate. Admit cards are issued only on the basis of the information provided by the candidate. Also, normally there is no scope of
changing/correcting any information after the last date of on-line application.
All verifications are done during counselling/ provisional admission/ registration by the Board/respective Institute/ respective university under whose jurisdiction the respective Institute belongs to.
If at any stage after examination it is found on scrutiny that the applicant is otherwise ineligible, his/her candidature shall be treated as cancelled even if he/she secured a Merit Rank and/or a seat has been allotted to the candidate.
Hence, securing a Rank does not constitute a right/guarantee in favour of a candidate for his/her claim for admission if he/she fails to comply with the specified norms and standards.
Candidates looks the more information for JENPAS (UG) -2020 from the official website (www.wbjeeb.nic.in/wbjeeb.in) or here given below.