Admissions into Army Institute Engg through JEE Main

New Delhi: Army Institute of Technology (AIT), Pune, will admit students to the various Bachelor of Engineering Programmes of the Institute through the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) to be c0nducted by the CBSE. The Programmes are open to wards of Army personnel only. A total of 300 seats are available at AIT for the BE Programmes. There are 120 seats in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, 60 seats each in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology.

Applicants must fall into one of the following categories.

Children of serving Army personnel with minimum 10 years continuous service in the Army

Children of ex Army personnel granted/ awarded regular pension, liberalized family pension, family pension or disability pension at the time of their superannuation, demise, discharge, release medical board/ invalided medical board. This includes wards of recruits medically boarded out and granted disability pension

Children of ex-Army personnel who have taken discharge or released after ten years of service

(b) Adopted /Step children and Children of Remarried Widows

Adopted Child of Army personnel if adopted at least five years prior to seeking admission

Step Children are eligible provided they are born from a wedding where at least one parent belonged to the Army who is otherwise eligible.

(c) Eligibility Criteria in Special Cases

(i) Eligibility Criteria for Wards of Ex-Army Medical Corps Officers/Army Dental Corps Officers presently serving with Indian Navy or Indian Air Force (IN/IAF): Wards of only those ex-Army medical officers/Army Dental Corps officers presently serving with Indian Navy or Indian Air Force who have served with the Army for at least 10 years

(ii) Eligibility Criteria for Children of APS/ MNS/TA Personnel

(aa) Children of APS personnel classified as ex- servicemen as per Govt of India, Ministry of Defence letter No 9 (52)/88/D(Res) dated 19 Jul 89

(ab) Children of those APS personnel who are on deputation and who have put in 10 years of service in the Army

(ac) Children of APS personnel, who are directly recruited into APS who have competed 10 years of service and of those who as per their terms and conditions of service, retired from APS without reversion to P&T Department after completing their minimum pensionable service of which 10 years was in the Army

(ad) Children of only those members of MNS who have 10 years’ service as regular members of MNS or are in receipt of pension from the Army

(ae) Children of only those TA personnel who have completed 10 years of embodied service

(d) The candidate must fulfil the age criteria requirements as per JEE Main 2013.

Applicant must be an Indian citizen or a PIO who obtains Indian citizenship before admission.

AIT admission is based on the Rank obtained in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2014. Hence, those eligible and interested in AIT admissions are required to appear in JEE Main 2014 and also apply to AIT for Admission. Application can be submitted for JEE Main 2014 ‘Online’. For Application form and the Information Bulletin of JEE (Main), applicants may visit JEE(Main) website www.jeemain.nic.in.

AIT Application Form: JEE (Main) Application Form should be filled before filling AIT Application Form. The JEE (Main) Roll No must be endorsed on the AIT Application Form before submitting it to AIT. Failure to do so would result in rendering the AIT Application Form null and void. Application to AIT can be submitted online or offline. Online application form is available at www.aitpune.com. Application fee of Rs 750/- can be paid through credit/debit card or net banking. In addition candidate will need to pay a processing charge of Rs 37/-.

A limited quantity of Prospectus (hard copies) with application form will be available at AIT, Pune, HQ Commands and Headquarters AWES on payment of Rs 750/- through bank DD of a nationalised bank drawn in favour of ‘Director, AIT’ and payable at Pune. No payment through cheque (including at-par cheques) will be accepted.

Prospectus with application form can also be obtained by post from AIT on payment of Rs 820/- through bank DD drawn in favour of ‘Director, AIT’, payable at Pune. Candidates are advised to use online facility for applying as far as possible.

Last date for submission of completed Application Form for AIT admission is 30th April 2014. After that AIT forms will be accepted along with a late fee of Rs 500/- till 5th May 2014. Admission at AIT, Pune, will tentatively take place three weeks after the date of declaration of JEE (Main) All India Rank. Admission schedule and Joining Instructions will be hosted on the AIT website www.aitpune.com .