The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board was formed in the year 1962 for the purpose of holding Common Entrance Examinations for the Undergraduate Level Engineering Courses in the State of West Bengal . This year, the Board has stepped into its Golden Jubilee year. Since last year, the endeavour of the Board has been to enhance the standard of transparency in conducting Common Entrance Examinations for various professional Undergraduate and Postgraduate level courses in the State through effective state-of-the-art technology. Admission through e–Counselling was successfully implemented to admit candidates in the undergraduate level courses in the Engineering & Technological Institutes of the State for the academic year 2012 – 2013.
