mangaluru the national institute of technology surathkal karnataka nitk which switched to online reporting of btech admissions in the past two academic years will now resume physical reporting for admissions this year as per the current plan btech admissions for 202223 through the joint seat allocation authority josaa2022 or central seat allocation board csab 2022 will start from november 4 said vidya shetty k dean academics nitk surathkal in the last academic year we decided to go offline but cancelled at the last minute as there was fear of the new covid19 variant last year both admissions and classes for firstsemester btech students were held online the first year btech students came to campus only in the second semester however this academic year the campus will go back to its normal practice of physical reporting as there are not many covid19 cases said shetty adding physical reporting was also held for mtech courses that commenced on august 18 the institution will start classes for the first btech courses 20 days earlier compared to the last academic year last year online classes for btech students started in the first week of december in 2020 online classes for freshers began on december 14 this year it will start on november 14 after the physical reporting and verification of all documents orientation programmes will start on november 10 followed by regular classes meanwhile physical reporting for direct admission of students abroad dasa 2022 candidates will begin on november 2 so far 76 candidates have enrolled under dasa the total btech intake will be higher this academic year since the institution has added computational and data science as a new course the total intake for the course is 30 seats bosch course from oct 25 mtech hybrid programme power electronics and control for electric vehicles launched by nitk surathkal in partnership with bosch global software technologies private limited bengaluru will start on october 25 vidya shetty said the first batch of the course has received 21 admissions so far