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IITs — each running its own separate M.Tech application process
One Window for Every IIT M.Tech Application
A student applying to M.Tech programmes at several IITs today creates a separate account on each institute's own portal, fills a fresh form each time, uploads the same documents again, and pays a separate fee each time. COAP does something real and valuable — it lets you manage the offers you receive after selection. The application stage that comes before it is still handled one institute at a time.
No fee, no membership, nothing to pay. We are establishing how many people support this before we take it any further.
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institutes — IITs included — that JoSAA already allocates undergraduate seats through one common platform
sourceWhy this matters
COAP solved one real problem — offer chaos
Before COAP, a student holding offers from several IITs at once had no clean way to accept one and release the rest, which risked seats sitting blocked while other applicants waited. COAP fixed exactly that, and it works. Aarunya Issue #002 is not a criticism of COAP — it is a proposal to build on what it already got right.
The application stage grew one institute at a time
Each IIT built its own M.Tech application portal at a different time, for its own programmes. That is simply how the system grew — no one designed it to be repetitive. The result today is that a student applying to five IITs creates five accounts, fills five forms, uploads the same certificates five times, and tracks five different deadlines and fee receipts.
India already runs this exact model — just one level over
This is not an untested import from abroad. CCMT already gives NIT-bound M.Tech applicants a single application on their GATE score. JoSAA already gives every undergraduate applicant — IITs included — one common platform for seat allocation across 138 institutes. Extending a single application window to IIT M.Tech is extending a pattern India's own system already trusts, not inventing a new one.
The paperwork and the academics are two different layers
What would become common: registration, one profile, one set of uploaded documents, one application fee, one dashboard to track every IIT. What stays 100% with each IIT: eligibility rules, cut-offs, written tests, interviews, portfolio evaluation, and the final merit list. The platform never selects a student. Each IIT does.
What we are asking for
- 1Study a voluntary, opt-in single-window platform ("COAP 2.0") covering registration, document upload and application fee payment for IIT M.Tech applicants — while every IIT continues to independently decide its own eligibility, interviews, cut-offs and final merit list.
- 2Extend the one-application, one-fee model that already works for NITs through CCMT, and for undergraduates through JoSAA, to the M.Tech stage at the IITs.
- 3Give every applicant a single dashboard to track deadlines, document status and offers across every IIT they apply to — with zero change to what any IIT looks for in a candidate.
- 4Pilot it as an optional parallel channel first, alongside existing institute portals, so no IIT is asked to give up anything before the idea is tested.
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COAP's own current FAQ states plainly that it is not an application portal: "it is not a portal for submitting M. Tech. applications" — candidates still apply separately to each institute for M.Tech admission.
COAP 2026 Official FAQ (coordinated by IIT Roorkee) · verified 2026-07-22
JoSAA already runs "a single platform" for undergraduate seat allocation across 138 institutes — 23 IITs, IISc, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs and 56 other government-funded technical institutes.
JoSAA official portal, Ministry of Education · verified 2026-07-22
CCMT already runs a single common application form for GATE-based M.Tech/M.Arch/M.Plan admission across NITs, IIEST Shibpur and participating IIITs/CFTIs — the postgraduate version of this same model, everywhere except the IITs.
CCMT official portal, Government of India · verified 2026-07-22
France's Mon Master platform takes a single national Master's application, while each institution's own application review committee independently ranks candidates and decides admission — application unified, selection untouched.
Campus France (official French agency for international students) · verified 2026-07-22
Germany's DoSV coordinates admission to restricted-entry programmes across many universities through one national dialogue-based platform, while each university still independently evaluates and admits its own students.
Ruhr-Universität Bochum — official DoSV explainer · verified 2026-07-22
Questions
Will IIT autonomy be affected?+
No. Every IIT continues to set its own rules and make its own selections. Only the common paperwork is shared.
Will interviews or tests be removed?+
No. Institutes keep their own interviews, written tests, and portfolio reviews exactly as they are.
Will eligibility become the same everywhere?+
No. Each IIT keeps its own eligibility and cut-offs; students just see them in one place.
Will IITs lose independence?+
No. Participation is voluntary and every academic decision stays with the institute. Systems like this already work in India (CCMT, JoSAA) and abroad (UK UCAS, France Mon Master, Germany DoSV).
Is this official / already approved?+
No. This is a student-led constructive suggestion for discussion, respectfully shared for consideration.
Is this a petition?+
Not yet. We are first gathering how many students actually experience this and support the idea, the same way Aarunya Issue #001 did. Once that response base is real, we will consider sharing a respectful proposal with the numbers attached.
Who is behind this?+
Aarunya Swaraj Party. This is Aarunya Issue #002 — built the same way Issue #001 was: research a specific problem, gather verifiable student support, and only then make a formal representation.
Where this stands
The whole process, in public
We publish each step as it happens — including the steps where nothing happens.
Issue published
2026-07-22Aarunya Issue #002 goes live. We begin gathering how many students support making the M.Tech application stage a single window too.
Gathering responses
Collecting responses from M.Tech applicants, current scholars, GATE aspirants, faculty and alumni across every IIT.
Publish what students told us
A short public summary of survey findings — how many portals applicants juggle, the fee burden, and how comfortable students are with an autonomy-preserving single window.
Formal representation
With real numbers established, we share a respectful proposal with the Ministry of Education and the IIT Council, and publish it here the day it is sent.
Follow-up
We publish any response received — and note it openly if there is none — with a follow-up at 30 days.
Your response
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Takes about a minute on Google Forms. We are establishing how many people actually want this changed — before we take it to anyone.
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