WBCAP 2025: West Bengal UG admission portal open to update OBC category till August 5

The West Bengal government has opened the WB UG admissions 2025 centralised admission portal for undergraduate courses in state-run and aided colleges until August 5 (midnight) to upload the social category details. Initially, the WBCAP admission portal was launched on July 17, faced challenges following a Calcutta High Court stay on the state’s revised OBC list.

However, the Supreme Court's order on July 28, which vacated the stay, cleared the path for the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) and college admissions under the updated OBC categories.

Following the SC verdict, the WB higher education department instructed students to update or upload their social category details on the portal starting July 29.

"The final deadline for submitting or updating social category details by candidates has been fixed as August 5 by midnight, which can be done online at wbcap.in," the chief secretary Manoj Pant told reporters at the state secretariat.

Initially, the earlier deadline was August 4.

"Those who fail to update/provide their social category information in the portal within stipulated time, shall be considered in default as per prevailing rules. Candidates are also informed that no further requests for changes or updates of their details will be entertained whatsoever once the aforementioned deadline is passed," the official said.

The WB board 2025 higher secondary exam results of the state board were published on May 7. A total of 460 state-run and state-aided colleges under 17 universities were included in the WBCAP 2025 portal. With inputs from PTI