kolkata association of professional academic institutions in bengal apai has requested the west bengal joint entrance examination board to conduct an additional round of manual counselling at the end of the ecounselling to ensure reduction in vacancies also interested students will be able to switch streams depending on the number of empty seats informed president of apai taranjit singhvicechancellor of maulana abul kalam university of technology makaut saikat maitra added that this year as many as 25 new courses have been given permission to run we have also revamped and upgraded the syllabus to ensure better job opportunity and rise in employability maitra said he added the syllabus has been reframed and modified keeping in mind the market demandthis year apai has also decided to award rs 20000 to 25 students on each day over three days during the precounselling fair and seminar to those candidates who will enroll in colleges under the associationapai as well as the vc of makaut claimed that not only students from bengal are going to other states to pursue a degree in engineering but candidates from the adjoining states and even from bihar are showing immense interest to study in private technology colleges in bengalthe apai precounselling fair will commence from june 5 and will go on till june 7the association appreciated the decision of wbjee board to prepone the ecounselling session so that more candidates after taking admissions in engineering colleges in bengal can be retained secretary of apai satyam roy chowdhury was also present at the occasion