Admission to Master Degree Programmes for the session 2019-2020

• Eighty percent (80%) of the seat in each department of the general category which may be rounded off to nearer absolute number will be reserved for domicile candidates of West Bengal that will be filled up on the basis of merit list.
• Twenty percent (20%) seats of the general category in each department which may be rounded off to nearer absolute number will be filled up on the basis of merit list considering both domicile and non-domicile candidates. No benefit of reservation will be extended to the non-domicile candidates.
• In case the seat has fallen vacant due to non-availability of domicile candidates, it will be filled up by the non-domicile candidates on the basis of merit list.

• MASTER DEGREE PROGRAMME:
  • Faculty of Agriculture:
    1) Agronomy, 2) Plant Pathology, 3) Agril. Entomology, 4) Agril. Economics, 5) Agril. Statistics, 6) Agril. Extension, 7) Genetics & Plant Breeding, 8) Seed Science & Technology, 9) Plant Physiology, 10) Agril. Chem. & Soil Science, 11) Agril. Biochemistry, 12) Agril. Chemicals, 13) Agril. Meteorology & Physics, 14) Soil & Water Conservation.
  • Faculty of Horticulture:
    1) Fruits Science, 2) Vegetable Science, 3) Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, 4) Post Harvest Technology, 5) Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops.
  • Faculty of Agricultural Engineering:
    1) Soil & Water Engineering, 2) Farm Machinery & Power, 3) Food Engineering 4) Post Harvest Engineering
  ELIGIBILITY (Master Degree)
  Candidates must have passed the 4-year Bachelor Degree examination in Agriculture/ Horticulture/Agricultural Engineering. General and OBC candidates must secure Overall Grade Point Average (OGPA) of at least 6.50/10.00 in ten-point scale, whereas for SC/ST candidates the said requirement is at least 5.50/10.00 in ten-point scale. In traditional system where grade-points are not awarded, the General and OBC category candidates must have secured at least 60% marks for, whereas for SC/ST categories the requirement is at least 50% marks.
  
  The graduates of some other disciplines of Engineering are also eligible to apply in the respective departments, i.e. 1) Civil Engineering for the Dept. of Soil & Water Engineering, 2) Mechanical Engineering for the Dept. of Farm Machinery & Power, 3) Chemical/ Biochemical Engineering for the Dept. of Food Engineering.
  
  Candidates must have passed Higher Secondary or equivalent examination (10+2) in General stream or Vocational stream securing at least 50% marks in aggregate for General and OBC categories, whereas for the candidate under SC/ST categories the said requirement is at least 40%.
  
  However, for M.Tech. admission, minimum marks accepted by WBJEE Board for admission to B. Tech. will be considered.
  
  Candidates appeared in the final semester of under-graduate programme are also eligible to apply.
  
  All the candidates are required to submit the photocopy of all the transcripts at the time of counselling for admission.

+ Important Dates

• Important Dates for Master Degree Admission (M.Sc./M.Tech.):

  Sl. No.	Particular	Dates
  1.	Opening date for Submission of online Application Forms (Tentative)	18/06/2019
  2.	Last date of Submission of online Application Forms and online payment of application fees	30/06/2019
  3.	Last date of submission of offline payment	02/07/2019
  4.	Last date of Correction/modification of online application form	02/07/2019
  5.	Date of commencement of generation/download of admit card	03/07/2019
  6.	Date of Entrance Examination	06/07/2019
  7.	Last date of up-gradation of Application Forms with U.G. Final marks	17/07/2019
  8.	Publication of Merit List (tentative)	23/07/2019
  9.	Date of 1st round Counselling/Admission of M.Sc./M.Tech. for domicile candidates (80% General Category and all reserved category seats) at J. N. Mukherjee Hall, Faculty of Agriculture Building, BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia.	30/07/2019 31/07/2019
  10.	Notification for vacant seat after the 1st round counselling (including 20% seats of General Category)	09/08/2019
  11.	Date of 2nd round Counselling / Admission of the vacant seats at J. N. Mukherjee Hall, Faculty of Agriculture Building, BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia.	14/08/2019
  12.	Date of 3rd round and Final Counselling / Admission / Change of the Department	20/08/2019
  13.	Date of Registration & Commencement of 1st semester classes of M.Sc. / M.Tech. candidates	28/08/2019

+ Schedule for Entrance Examination

For Masters Degree programme:

• Agriculture:

  Group	Name of the Module / Subject	Date	Time	Venue
  I	Agronomy	06/07/2019	11:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon	F/of Ag. Bldg.
  II	a. Crop Protection	-do-	1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M.	-do
  	b. Natural Resource Management	-do-	-do-	-do-
  	c. Social Science	-do-	-do-	-do-
  III	Plant Science	-do-	3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.	-do-

• Horticulture and Agricultural Engineering:

  Name of the Module / Subject	Date	Time	Venue
  Horticulture	06/07/2019	11:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon	F/Hort. Bldg.
  Agricultural Engineering	-do-	11:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon	F/Ag. Engg. Bldg.

+ Schedule of department-wise Counselling/Admission

• For Masters Degree Programme:

  Date	Course	Time
  30/07/2019 (1st Round)	Horticulture	12:00 - 2:00 P.M.
  	Agronomy	2.30 – 4:00 P.M.
  	Natural Resource Management	4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
  31/07/2019 (1st round)	Crop Protection	12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
  	Plant Science	1:00 - 2:00 P.M.
  	Social Science	2.30 – 4:00 P.M.
  	Agricultural Engineering	4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
  14/08/2019 (2nd round)	Counselling/Admission of vacant seats	12:00 - 4:00 P.M.
  20/08/2019 (3rd round)	3rd & Final Counselling / Admission / Change the Department	12:00 - 2:00 P.M.
NB: If there is any change in the above mentioned dates due to unavoidable circumstances, revised dates will be notified in the University Website (www.bckv.edu.in).

+ Admission Fees

A	B	C	D
Sl. No.	Courses	Admission Fees (including 1st Sem. Fees) [Non refundable] (Rs.)	Hostel Admission Fees for Hosteller [refundable] (Rs.)
1.	M.Sc. (Ag.) / M.Sc. (Hort.) / M.Tech. (Ag. Engg.)	Hosteller : 15,950/- (including 1st Sem. Fees 8,650/-)	3000/-
		Dayscholar : 14,150/- (including 1st Sem. Fees 6,850/-)	NIL

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