CSAB Supernumerary 2026: Registration Opens for UT Candidates at NIT Calicut, Durgapur and SVNIT Surat

By the Online Coaching 4u team

Last updated: 25 August 2026.

The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) has opened online registration and choice filling for the CSAB Supernumerary Round 2026, confirmed directly on the official csab.nic.in/csab-supernumerary page, which now carries the banner "Online Registration & Choice Filling for 2026 has been started." This is a narrow, separate counselling window that runs after the main CSAB Special Rounds close, and applies to a specific set of candidates and seats.

What's actually confirmed

Per the official CSAB Supernumerary page, this round allocates supernumerary seats at three institutes only — NIT Calicut, NIT Durgapur and SVNIT Surat — based on each candidate's JEE (Main) 2026 rank. Eligibility is restricted to candidates domiciled in Union Territories that lack their own AICTE-approved technical institutes: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli. CSAB's site states plainly that "the eligibility criteria and procedural requirements — including registration, choice filling, choice locking, seat allotment, and fee payment — differ from those of JoSAA/CSAB rounds," and directs candidates to review the Business Rules before applying. Two supporting documents, the CSAB Supernumerary Round Schedule 2026 and the Seat Matrix for CSAB Supernumerary 2026, were published on the site on 21 August 2026, alongside a separate homepage notice that CSAB's NEUT (North Eastern States and Union Territories) Round 2 seat allocation result has also been declared. CSAB's site does not display exact registration-closing or seat-allotment dates in plain text on the Supernumerary page itself — candidates should open the official Schedule PDF linked there directly for the day-by-day timeline rather than rely on a secondary source.

What this means for aspirants

This round only concerns candidates from the four listed Union Territories; it is not a general re-opening of counselling for the wider JEE Main candidate pool, and does not require a fresh exam attempt — it draws on each eligible candidate's existing JEE (Main) 2026 rank. Because it commences only after CSAB Special Rounds finish, and this site's 20 August update already confirmed CSAB Special/DASA Round 2 results and reporting were underway, this Supernumerary window is very likely one of the last formal JEE-linked counselling processes still open for the 2026 admission cycle. Eligible candidates should register on the official portal without delay and read the linked Schedule and Seat Matrix PDFs in full, since the process (choice locking, fee structure, reporting) is explicitly different from the JoSAA/CSAB process most JEE candidates already went through.

Important pointers

• [21 Aug 2026] CSAB published the official CSAB Supernumerary Round Schedule 2026 and Seat Matrix for CSAB Supernumerary 2026 documents on csab.nic.in.
• [Checked 25 Aug 2026] Online registration and choice filling for CSAB Supernumerary 2026 is confirmed open on the official CSAB Supernumerary page.
• Eligibility fact: Only candidates domiciled in Andaman & Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli can apply for CSAB Supernumerary seats — this round is not open to the general JEE Main candidate pool.
• [Checked 25 Aug 2026] CSAB's homepage also lists the CSAB NEUT (North Eastern States and Union Territories) Round 2 seat allocation result as declared.
• Myth check: Applying for CSAB Supernumerary does not require sitting a fresh test — it uses a candidate's existing JEE (Main) 2026 rank, with eligibility determined by home-UT domicile rather than by exam performance alone.

Sources: CSAB Supernumerary official page (csab.nic.in); CSAB homepage, Latest News (csab.nic.in).

Last updated: 25 August 2026.

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