CSAB Special Round Counseling 2025: Dates, Registration, Choice filling, Seat Allotment

CSAB Special Round Counseling 2025 round 2 seat allotment result has been released by the authorities on Aug 14, 2025. The Round 1 seat allotment result was released on Aug 09, 2025.  CSAB Special Round Counseling 2025 facilitates the admission of students to various engineering colleges and courses in India. The CSAB Special Round Vacancy Display, following the JoSAA rounds, was released on July 30, 2025. The registrations started from Jul 30 to Aug 04, 2025, on the official website.

The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) conducts a special round to fill the vacant seats after the JoSAA Round 6 cutoff has been announced. This year, the special round is being conducted by NIT Surathkal. It will ensure admission to NITs, IIEST, IIITs, SPAs, and other GFTIs, commonly called the NIT+ system. The following article provides in-depth knowledge about the CSAB process, important dates, registration procedures, choice filling, and seat allotment guidelines.

CSAB Special Round Counseling Important Dates 2025

The authorities have published the CSAB 2025 schedule. All events adhere to the schedule; however, dates may be changed in the event of an unavoidable circumstance. You are advised to check the official website regularly in case of any such changes. The important dates according to the official schedule released by CSAB for Special Round Counseling are given below:

CSAB Registration 2025

Students applying for the CSAB Special Rounds must complete a fresh registration process online. The CSAB Special Round registration process 2025 is different from the JoSAA rounds as it only considers JEE Main scores. Once the CSAB counseling results are released, you can choose to either Freeze, Slide, Float, Surrender, Withdraw, or Exit. Students who have appeared in the JoSAA rounds are also eligible for the CSAB 2025 Special rounds depending on the choice filled in during the last round.

A part of the Central Seat Allocation Board’s (CSAB) function is to conduct two special rounds, post-completion of JoSAA rounds to admit students to the vacant seats in the NIT+ System (excluding all IITs). This process begins with you completing the category restoration. During the JoSAA counseling 2025 documentation process, if a student’s category was changed from OBC-NCL/GEN-EWS/SC/ST to GEN due to invalid category certificates, they can raise a category restoration request and submit the valid certificates.

A detailed account of the CSAB Counseling 2025 registration process, choice filling, and seat allotment are given below.

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CSAB Special Round Eligibility

If you are applying for the CSAB special round counselling, you must meet some eligibility criteria in addition to having completed class 12th and holding a valid JEE Main score. Failing to meet the eligibility criteria may result in the cancellation of candidature for the current CSAB seat allotment round.

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CSAB Special Round Counseling Process

As stated before, the CSAB Special round registrations are made fresh on the official website. The JOSAA 2025 registrations do not apply to the Special Rounds. An overview of the Special round registration process and CSAB choice filling is given below:

• Step 1: Go to the official website.
• Step 2: Register using your details.
• Step 3: Pay the Special Round Enrolment Fee (SERF). (IAF-I + SAPF)
  Step 4: Complete the online choice filling and lock the choices.

Once the CSAB Special round results are announced, the following steps must be completed at the earliest:

• Step 1: Exercise the willingness option.
• Step 2: Upload the relevant documents.
• Step 3: Pay Institute Admission Fee (IAF-II).
• Step 4: Complete online reporting and document verification.

After completing the document verification, the students must report to the allotted institute for further admission steps.

CSAB Counseling Fee

Students applying for the special rounds must deposit the Special Round Enrolment Fee (SERF) to ensure further processing of their applications. This sum includes the Institute Admission Fee (IAF-I) and the Special Round Processing Fee (SRPF). The CSAB SERF payment can be made using Net Banking / Debit card / Credit card or SBI e-challan.

The category-wise CSAB Special Round fees is tabulated below:

Note: If you are from Type 6 to 9, you will receive an adjusted amount of the Seat Allotment Fee, as you would have paid the SAF during JoSAA 2025.

If you are applying for category restoration and haven’t paid the PAF, you will have to pay a sum of INR 17,500. For more details, refer to the information brochure given on the official website.

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CSAB Special Round Seat Allotment

If you are registering for the CSAB counseling 2025 must enter your fresh preferences for each round. Any choices made during the JoSAA counselling 2025 rounds do not apply to these rounds. After the fee payment, the students are presented with a list of programs (depending on eligibility and scores) offered at the NIT+ System,and they must fill in their choices accordingly. 

CSAB Counseling Willingness of Choice

As soon as the CSAB Counseling results are out, you must proceed with exercising your right of choice. This entails accepting or rejecting the seat allotted to the student. The choices available during the CSAB-2025 schedule include:

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Submission of IAF-II

If you are opting for Freeze/Slide/ Float who have submitted the relevant documents must pay the Institute Admission Fee (IAF-II) to be eligible for admission/appearing in the other rounds. The CASB IAF-II fee payment can be made using Net Banking / Debit card / Credit card or SBI e-challan.

The category-wise IAF-II amount is tabulated below:

Reporting and Document Verification

The entire CSAB counseling documentation and verification is conducted online through the official portal. After they have filled in their choice and paid the fees, they must proceed with the online reporting and document verification to be eligible for final admission.

As per the CSAB schedule 2025, if you have opted for the Freeze/Slide/ Float, you will be verified online by the officials at the Verification Center. It is important to note that online document verification is applicable for students who were verified and unverified during the JoSAA rounds. 

Note: If you have a JoSAA 2025 allotted seat appearing in the CSAB Special Round counseling, who do not opt for any choice, you will be automatically moved to Round 2 with the Float option. They must complete the document verification during the Special Round 2 dates to avoid cancellation of candidature.

As a part of the CSAB online verification, the officials might raise some queries. You are advised to resolve the queries in the given timeframe (check the CSAB 2025 schedule) to avoid cancellation of candidature or delay in the admission process.

There may be other causes of cancellation of seat allotment or candidature, these are:

• If you opt for “Surrender” in CSAB Round 1, your allotted seat will be canceled, and you will be moved to Round 2.
• If you opt for “Withdraw” in CSAB Round 1, the allotted and retained seat will be canceled, and you will not be eligible for Round 2.
•  If you are appearing in Special Round 1, do not fill in any choice/select a choice but do not pay the IAF/select a choice and pay the IAF-II amount, but do not resolve the documentation queries, then his//her candidature will be canceled.

If you are appearing in the CSAB Special Round, you must follow the same procedure as given for Special Round 1. As CSAB Round 2 concludes, the students are instructed to proceed with the physical verification at the allotted institute and finalize the admission formalities.

The CSAB 2025 Special Round allocation is done in 2 rounds, and the entire process is conducted online. All updates, communication, and result declarations are made on the online portal. Therefore, students are advised to keep their login credentials safe and regularly check the portal, per the CSAB schedule 2025, to keep abreast with the process.

CSAB Counseling Grievance Redressal

For more queries on the CSAB 2025 Special Round process, the students can contact NIT Surathkal, the organizing institute, between 9 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 8 pm. The contact details are given below: