B.Tech. Fire Engineering Program at National Fire Service College (NFSC), Nagpur

National Fire Service College (NFSC), Nagpur The National Fire Service College (NFSC), Nagpur, established in 1956 and functioning under the Directorate General of Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guards, Ministry of Home Affairs , is the nation‘s premier institution dedicated to advancing fire engineering education, training, research, and capacity building. As the only institute in India offering a B.Tech. in Fire Engineering, NFSC plays a pivotal role in shaping future-ready fire professionals and leaders, with its graduates in high demand across industry and public services. The program integrates strong engineering fundamentals with practical training to develop technically proficient and operationally decisive professionals, including expertise in designing fire protection systems. Backed by state-of-the-art laboratories, large-scale fire testing , research & development facilities and strong industry and institutional linkages, NFSC contributes significantly to fire safety standards, policy development, and national resilience - preparing professionals committed to protecting life, property, and critical infrastructure.

Evolution of Fire Engineering Fire Engineering has evolved as a critical discipline driven by the need to protect societies from devastating fire hazards. Its origins can be traced back to ancient civilizations - most notably during the reign of Emperor Nero in Rome - where the use of non-combustible materials was mandated after a major fire disaster. However, the discipline formally emerged in the early 20 th century as industrialization increased the complexity and scale of fire risks.

Globally, the establishment of specialized education in fire engineering began with pioneering programs such as those at the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA) and the formation of the Institution of Fire Engineers (UK) in 1918. Over time, advanced academic programs and research initiatives expanded across countries, including postgraduate education in New Zealand and other leading institutions worldwide.

In India, NFSC has been the cornerstone of this evolution. Envisioned by Shri M. G. Pradhan, the founder of the College, the institution was created to bring scientific rigor and engineering principles into firefighting and fire safety. The Fire Engineering degree program at NFSC was started in 1978 under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and is affiliated to Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University - a university with a rich academic legacy of over 100 years. Over the decades, NFSC has transformed the discipline into a structured engineering domain, contributing to national policies, standards and professional excellence in fire safety and emergency management. The NFSC has initiated consultancy and research activities in Fire Engineering and Technology, delivering practical, science-based solutions to address industry and societal challenges, with a focus on minimizing fire losses and supporting the national vision of a fire-safe India.

Looking ahead, NFSC is poised for academic expansion with readiness to launch postgraduate and Ph.D. research programs in Fire Engineering, along with MBA and specialized programmes in Fire Safety Engineering and Disaster Management. With strong industry linkages and global relevance, graduates of NFSC are in high demand across sectors such as oil & gas, power, steel, infrastructure, aviation, manufacturing and government services—both in India and internationally - making it a highly rewarding and impactful career choice.

B.Tech. Fire Engineering Course The B.Tech. Fire Engineering program at National Fire Service College is a flagship course designed to meet the growing demand for qualified fire engineers in an increasingly risk-prone and technologydriven world. The College is affiliated with Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and the program is approved by All India Council for Technical Education. The College has implemented National Education Policy 2020 from the academic year 2024-25.

This four-year degree program combines strong engineering fundamentals with specialized knowledge in fire dynamics, industrial safety, risk assessment and fire protection system design. With an intake of 60 students, admissions are based on the All India Ranking in JEE (Main) issued by the National Testing Agency, followed by prescribed medical and physical fitness parameters at the Institute, ensuring that students are groomed through rigorous practical training, discipline and professional conduct.

The program emphasizes holistic development through academic rigor, discipline and continuous exposure to seminars, workshops and expert interactions. Students benefit from a vibrant campus spread over 43 acres, equipped with modern classrooms, advanced laboratories and upgraded training infrastructure aligned with the National Education Policy 2020.

Graduates of NFSC are highly sought after, finding opportunities across industries such as oil & gas, power, infrastructure, aviation, manufacturing and government services—both in India and globally. With its commitment to excellence, innovation and nation-building, NFSC continues to inspire and prepare the next generation of fire engineers to lead, protect and serve.

Admission Schedule S.No. Programme Tentative Dates 1 Opening Online Form 15 th May 2026 2 Last Date of Form Submission 2 nd July 2026 3 Sending Call Letter for Document Verification, Physical and Medical Examination by Outsource Agency 9 th July 2026 4 Document Verification, Physical and Medical Examination 15 th and 16 th July 2026 5 Finalization of Merit List by NFSC & Short Listing of Candidates and Display of Final Result on NFSC Website 24 th July 2026 6 Original Document and Fee Submission 30 th July & 31 st July 2026 7 Induction Programme and Commencement of Class 3 rd August 2026 Nationalized Admission Process (NAP) at National Fire Service College Candidates seeking admission to the B Tech (Fire Engineering) course are required to appear for JEE (Main) 2026 (Paper-I) conducted by NTA for the academic year 2026-27. The candidates are advised to ensure before applying that he/she is eligible for admission to the program as per the prevailing eligibility norms of the NFSC. The following stages shall be followed for Nationalized Admission Process at National Fire Service College:

Stage. 1. Inviting Online Applications The Competent Authority shall invite Online Applications from Candidates in the prescribed form for participating in Nationalized Admission Process through the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity for seeking admission to the Under Graduate Technical Course B.Tech. (Fire Engineering) for the academic year-2026-27. Candidates shall apply online through the external admission link provided at college website http://nfscnagpur.nic.in/ . The Admission Brochure shall be published on the NFSC website by the Competent Authority and the candidate should read the brochure carefully before applying. The Application processing fee for NAP shall be Rs. 500/- paid through online payment Gateway and the amount is Non-Refundable. Consequently, the Candidates shall apply online and submit the necessary documents/certificates issued by the concerned Authority, along-with the application, in the prescribed Proforma as per the eligibility conditions mentioned in this Admission Brochure. Candidates are required to fill in all the details as per the instructions and Upload scanned valid necessary documents as per the requirement of the admission while filling online application form. After confirmation of application form, information cannot be changed by candidate. The Printout of form shall have list of documents required to be produced by the candidate for substantiating his/her claim made in the application form. The candidate shall carry a two sets of photocopies of the required documents at the Document Verification and Medical Examination The candidates applied through online admission portal shall be scrutinized based on the scores in JEE (Mains) Paper-I and the percentile scores of the candidate in the respective Board of education and will be called in proportionate ratio decided by competent authority based on CRL Rank provided by NTA in the JEE (Mains) 2026. On publication of list in the web site, the candidates will be attended for the document verification and medical examination Infront of the board constituted at National Fire Service College. The candidates whose names do not appear in the merit list(s) will not be able to participate in remaining admission Process. The admission board of NFSC will conduct the document verification and medical examination as per the eligibility conditions and requirements mentioned in this admission brochure. Note: The candidate must provide their login credentials at the time of document verification in order to verify their JEE Score.

Stage. 2. Document Verification and Medical Examination Document Verification and Medical Examination at National Fire Service College, Nagpur by the Candidate or through the method prescribed by the Competent Authority for this purpose. It is mandatory on the candidate‘s part to produce all original documents in support of the claim made in the application form. JEE Mains Score Card issued by NTA 10 th Class Mark Sheet (Original) 12 th Class Mark Sheet (Original) School / College / Leaving Certificate/ Transfer Certificate (Original) Nationality / Birth Certificate (if School Leaving Certificate specifies nationality details, then no separate certificate needed). Otherwise, the Passport or State domicile can be produced for valid verification Domicile / Residence Certificate Caste certificate issued by competent authority in State Govt. format or Caste certificate issued by competent authority in Central Govt. format for candidates other than Maharashtra Caste Validity Certificate issued by competent authority (For Maharashtra State only) Valid Non-Creamy layer certificate for OBC candidates. Gap Certificate on stamp paper (wherever applicable) Migration Certificate EWS Certificate: The candidate must bring EWS certificate issued by the Competent Authority, if claiming relaxation under EWS category (wherever applicable) J&K Migrant Certificate shall be provided for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh Migrant candidates (wherever applicable) Tuition Fee Waiver Scheme (TFWS) Certificate shall be provided from either ‗Mamlatdar‘ or ‗Taluka development officer‘ for admission (wherever applicable) Two (2) passport size colour photographs UIDAI (Aadhar) Card NFSC admission board shall verify all documents from Original and put a stamp with date & Signature and provide Receipt-cum-Acknowledgement. If a candidate is unable to produce original certificates at the time of his/her admission on account of admission already secured to some other institution, he or she shall produce a certificate from the Head of the institution where he/she has already taken admission indicating that he/she has been admitted to a particular course in that institution on a particular date and hence original certificates have been retained in that institution. The candidate shall produce the attested copies of the certificates duly attested by the Head of the concerned institution. Such candidates shall be required to pay the fees immediately at the time of admission and such candidates shall be permitted to submit the required original certificates within 05 working days after the date of payment of fees. Provisional Merit List of eligible candidates will be displayed on the website. For discrepancy if any, in the provisional merit list, within specified grievance period, Candidates can submit the grievances in writing along with necessary documents to substantiate, at NFSC, where the candidate has confirmed his/her application form. No document shall be accepted to substantiate the claim made in application after scheduled dates. Provisional merit lists will be displayed on the website. The provisional merit list gives relative position of the candidate and it does not guarantee admission. Display or Publishing of Provisional merit list, Submission of grievances, if any, through the method prescribed by the Competent Authority for this purpose. No document shall be accepted to substantiate the claim made in application after scheduled dates. The allotment list displayed on website will show the provisional allotment offered to the candidates. Stage. 3. Enrollment of admission at National Fire Service College Provisional Merit List of eligible candidates will be displayed on the website. The Candidate shall report to the NFSC to book admission seat allotted to him and confirm his admission in NFSC in person as per the schedule. The college authority shall verify the required documents and finalize the admission of the candidates immediately and shall issue a receipt of confirmation of admission to the candidate. Merit list candidates should pay the fees immediately before the prescribed date intimated to them, otherwise lose their candidature and no correspondence will be entertained later. Final eligibility list with category wise seats will be displayed on the website. Failure to report for Seat acceptance as per the method prescribed by the Competent Authority will be considered as if the Candidate has rejected the offer. Allotted Seat will be cancelled if, at any time, any of the document or certificate is found to be invalid or fraudulent and/or the Candidate does not meet the eligibility norms. Admission of candidate will be treated as finally confirmed only on production of the Eligibility Certificate from the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University. Admissions once confirmed shall be final and candidate shall not be allowed to seek transfer of their admission to any other institute and/or any other course during entire duration of the course. Caution money deposit received from the students shall be refunded after successful completion of the course or after canceling the admission. Unless there is any recovery, no deduction shall be made from the caution money deposit. However, if candidate does not apply for refund, within 3 complete financial years after the student actually leaves the institution; or, within 3 complete financial years after the date of successful completion of the course, whichever is earlier the amount of caution money deposit shall be credited to students‘ development fund. The Candidate shall intimate through E-mail nfscnagpur-mha@nic.in and nfscacad@gmail.com for cancellation and submit duly signed copy of application for cancellation of admission to the college. The College shall consider the online request made by Candidate for cancellation as final irrespective of whether he/she has submitted duly signed copy of system generated application to the College. Upon such cancellation, the candidate shall lose the claim on the seat and such seat shall become available for further allotment. The candidate shall then become entitled to and the Institute shall refund the entire fees to the candidate after deduction of Rs.1000/- towards processing charges and return all his/her original documents submitted to the Institute within seven days from submission of duly signed copy of application to the Institute. Eligibility Conditions And Requirements For Admissions Through NAP At NFSC The candidate desirous of applying for B. Tech. (Fire Engineering) program for the academic year becomes eligible by possessing the following qualifications mentioned below:

Candidate should be an Indian National and should have passed the HSC (Std. XII) examination of any State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education or its equivalent examination with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects along with one of the Chemistry or Biotechnology or Biology or Technical Vocational subjects or Computer Science or Information Technology or Informatics Practices or Agricultures or Engineering Graphics or Business Studies or Electronics or Entrepreneurship, in the above subjects taken together and obtained at least 50% marks; AND Obtained CRL Rank in JEE (Main) 2026 Paper-I given by NTA. Also, the candidate must have passed with English as a subject. For students coming from States other than Maharashtra State, this criterion will be governed by rules of Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra State. The eligibility of the candidates who are Indian Nationals, passing the HSC (Std. XII) or equivalent examination from a School/College/Examination Board situated outside India shall be further decided by the RTM Nagpur University Authorities. Hence, such candidates are advised to get their eligibility verified by the University Authorities before seeking admission to the B.Tech. (Fire Engineering) program. The candidates belonging to this type are however required to appear for the JEE (Main) 2026 Paper-I. Physical Standards For Male

Height: Minimum 165 cm (Relaxable by 5 cm in the case of Garhwals, Assamese Gorkha and member of the Schedule tribes).

Chest: Minimum 81 cm unexpanded and 86 cm with expansion (Fully expanded with minimum of 5 cm expansion)

Weight: Minimum 50 kg (ii) For Female Height:- Minimum 157 cm (Relaxable by 2.5 cm in the case of Garhwals, Assamese Gorkha and member of the Schedule tribes).

Weight: Minimum 46 kg

For Female

Height: Minimum 157 cm (Relaxable by 2.5 cm in the case of Garhwals, Assamese Gorkha and member of the Schedule tribes).

Weight: Minimum 46 kg.

Medical Standards

Both for Male and Female

Visual: Better eye - 6/6 without aid (Eligible vision – 6/6 only) Worse eye - 6/12

Colour Vision: No colour blindness.

The candidate must not have knock-knee, flat foot, squint eyes and stammering. They must be in good mental and body health and free from any physical defect.

Note: The candidates are requested to note that this course consist of rigorous physical training involving physical stress and strain. Hence, in addition to the above mandatory physical and medical standards prescribed, the candidates will require the zeal and enthusiasm to take up uniformed, disciplined, practical field fire ground operation training during the course. The differently abled candidates may take note of these facts.

Reservations The admission will be made purely on the merit for each category amongst the medically and physically fit candidates only. The candidates found physically and medically unfit or not falling within the qualitative requirements mentioned elsewhere in this brochure will be out of the merit list. The admission offered by NFSC, will be subject to clearance by RTM Nagpur University on their enrollment process for undergoing the course. If the marks in the JEE (Main) 2026 Paper-I examination are modified due to verification and the same is duly certified by the NTA, Delhi, the same shall be reported to the Competent Authority immediately. However, the effect of the change will be taken into consideration subject to availability of seats after the receipt of intimation about the change to NFSC. All the reservations given below shall be applicable to candidates subject to the fulfillment of the eligibility criteria specified by respective authorities from time to time. The National Fire Service College, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, is a centrally funded institution and the B.Tech. (Fire Engineering) course is the course affiliated to the RTM Nagpur University registered under UGC Act, the reservation of seats will be as provided in section 3(i), 3(ii), 3(iii), of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Admissions) Act, 2006. The percentage of seats reserved for the candidates as per the details given below in table and the candidate can claim only one type of candidature: Category Reservation of Seats Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) 27% Scheduled Castes and Schedule Caste converted to Buddhism (SC) 15% Schedule Tribes (ST) 7.5% General - Economically Weaker Section (GEN-EWS) 10% J & K Migrants 5% Tuition Fee Waiver Scheme (TFW) 5% The NFSC has an approved intake of 60 seats granted by The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. Therefore, sixty (60) number of seats are available for allotment through admission rounds, on the basis of All India Rank given by NTA for JEE (Main) to the eligible candidates. 10% of the sanctioned intake such as Six (6) numbers of additional seats at present shall be provided to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) candidates over and above the intake. Admission to these seats shall be as per the guidelines of the AICTE and on submission of the application in prescribed formats. 5% of the sanctioned intake such as Three (3) numbers of additional seats at present shall be provided to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh Migrant candidates over and above the intake. Tuition Fee Waiver Scheme (TFWS) shall be mandatory for all Technical Institutions offering undergraduate programs that are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education. Seats up to maximum 5% of sanctioned intake per course shall be available. These seats shall be supernumerary in nature and will be available to such courses in an Institute where a minimum of 30% of sanctioned seats in the respective courses are filled up in respective NAP. The Waiver is limited to the tuition fee as approved by Competent Authority. All other fees except tuition fees shall be paid by the beneficiary. The Candidates admitted under this scheme shall not be allowed to change Institution/course at any stage under any circumstances. Fee Structure The following are the details of the fees to be paid by the candidate through online mode through SBI I Collect only:

S. No. Particulars Fees (Rs.) 1 Tuition Fees 15000 2 Development Fees 5000 3 Other Fees 4000 4 Hostel Fees 18000 *Total Fees Per Year 42000 * The fees mentioned above may undergo revision.

The Messing charges would be around Rs.100/- to 250/- per day (likely to undergo revision) which shall include Morning Tea, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. The messing charges are to be paid to the mess operator for six months in advance before the commencement of the course. In addition, there may be fees for various funds charged by RTM Nagpur University, which the candidates will be required to pay at a later stage. Students would also have to pay an additional amount of Rs 4000/- (approximately) every year towards medical insurance for protection of any physical injury during the course. Examination fees per Semester as per RTM Nagpur University rules is around Rs 2500/-. Financial Aid and Student Loans The PM-Vidyalaxmi Scheme, a Government of India initiative offering collateral-free and guarantor-free education loans is available for all meritorious students who are getting admission in this Institution and who are desirous of availing education loans to pursue higher education. You can visit the portal https://pmvidyalaxmi.co.in . The portal does not charge any amount from the applicant. Through the portal, you can: Apply to multiple banks for education loan, Access collateral-free and guarantor-free education loans, Benefit of interest subsidies available to eligible students as per scheme guidelines accessible at https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/documentreports/PM_Vidyalaxmi_Scheme_Guidelines.pdf To address queries raised by the students, there is a dedicated Toll-free number 1800-1031 Hostel Shared accommodation will be provided. Hostel accommodation is compulsory for all students. Night roll call will be taken at 9:30 PM, it is mandatory for each student to be present during roll call in proper dress. Separate accommodation is available for boys and girls student, however, mess and dinning area is common. Head Quarters Address THE DIRECTOR NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE COLLEGE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RAJNAGAR, NAGPUR-440013 Telephone No. 0712-2982225 Telefax No. 0712-2982224 Website: https://nfscnagpur.nic.in/ E-mail: nfscnagpur-mha@nic.in , nfscacad@gmail.com

Contact Details In case you require any clarification regarding the application and admission related query please contact us during office working hours of 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday.

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