2.49 lakh students receive first allotment

As many as 2.49 lakh students received allotment on publication of the first allotment list in the main phase of Plus One higher secondary single-window admission on Monday.
This is higher than the number of students who received trial allotment a few days ago (2,47,428).
The total number of applicants for the first allotment was 4,63,686. Of them, 2,49,540 received allotment. The number of seats, including additional seats for the differently abled, available was 3,18,574. The number of seats vacant after the first allotment is 69,034.
The total number of seats available for the trial allotment was 3,17,583.
Like in the trial allotment, slightly fewer than half the applicants in Malappuram received allotment. The district that had the maximum number of applicants – 82,498. The number of seats allotted was 40,566, while the total number of seats available was 57,633. The total number of seats vacant is 17,067.
The number of applications received in Kozhikode was 48,238. The total number of seats available was 31,448 and those allotted was 23,840. As many as 7,608 seats were vacant.
In Palakkad, 22,652 of the 45,893 applicants received allotment. There were 27,454 seats available in the district. This left 4,802 seats in the district.
Twenty-seven seats remained vacant in the general category after the first allotment, 268 in the Ezhava/Thiyya category, and 221 in the Muslim category. As many as 3,740 seats were vacant in the Latin Catholic/Anglo-Indian category.
In the Scheduled Caste category, 14,098 seats were vacant, while in the Scheduled Tribe category, it was 27,094.
As many as 6,121 of the 8,199 sport quota seats were allotted. Now, only 2,078 seats remain vacant.
Of the 1,529 model residential school quota seats, 1,314 were allotted; 215 seats were vacant.
Admissions will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday and continue till 5 p.m. on June 5. Candidates who get the first option in this allotment should remit the fee and take permanent admission. Those who get other options may take temporary or permanent admission.

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