Orissa Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) governed by Industries Department, Government of Orissa came out with a concept of holding a common admission test for all the Professional degree courses (B.Tech. / MBBS / BDS / MBA / MCA/ Architecture/Pharmacy)of the State. The basic purpose was to select candidates for consideration for admission to the State Colleges (Both private and Govt.) on the basis of the results of a single competitive examination, which would lead to saving of time, energy and expenditure on the part of the candidates in appearing at number of entrance tests.
The OJEE is responsible for producing quality technical manpower in the field of Engineering and Technology, Management, through AICTE approved Govt. / Govt. Aided / Self-financed Institutions and University Departments following the norms and standards as prescribed by AICTE.
In the year 2010, the state administration decided to adopt modern web based online off campus counseling system to bring in more transparency & efficiency for making merit based admissions and elimination of generic problems of manual counseling system.
The main objectives of web based counseling system are:
- To bring in 100% transparency in seats allotment and admissions.
- To build strong public interface to minimize travel burdens on counselees & their parents for counseling.
- Providing enough time to counselees for submission, change, delete, re-ordering of multiple choices from anywhere any time.
- Availability of required information, queries, reports at different levels.
- Centralized database and centralized monitoring.
- Less Paper counseling.
- Secured and controlled data access at every level.
