| Saturday, May 31, 2008
Mumbai boy tops IIT-JEE 2008
New Delhi: Results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2008
for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology were declared
on Friday. Shitikanth from the Bombay zone is the All-India
topper in the prestigious examination.
Of the 3,11,258 candidates who appeared in the examination conducted
on April 13, 8,652 candidates have been declared qualified to
seek admission in the 6,872 seats in IITs at Chennai, Delhi,
Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee and some proposed
new IITs, Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University and
Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad.
“Consequent to the government of India issuing notification
for the setting up of eight new IITs in the 11th Plan, admissions
to three more new IITs in Punjab, Gujarat and Orissa, other
than at Hyderabad, Patna and Rajasthan, for the academic session
2008-09 are likely to be made through JEE-2008,” said
an official release.
One of the important features of this year’s result is
that reservation for the Other Backward Classes has been implemented
and a separate list for such candidates has been declared.
From the Delhi zone, 51, 373 candidates appeared in the exam
and 1, 549 qualified for admission. Nikhil Garg has topped the
Delhi zone with an All-India sixth rank.
This year 78,159 girls appeared for the JEE 2008 and 840 of
them were able to crack it. The number of girl candidates qualifying
the exam has increased by 43 per cent since last year.
N. Vasuki from the Madras zone has topped the list of girl candidates,
having secured an All-India 14th rank.
This year, 72,116 OBC candidates appeared in JEE, of which 1,134
have qualified.
Of the 28,393 candidates from the Scheduled Castes, 690 have
qualified, whereas of the 8,514 examinees from the Scheduled
Tribes’ category, 159 have cleared it.
Twenty candidates with certified physical disabilities will
be granted admission with relaxed norms.
The examination was conducted at more than 600 centres across
the country. For the first time, a JEE centre had been opened
outside India at Dubai.
Counselling on June 17
Counselling for admission begins on June 17 for the declared
All-India rank holders. Courses allocated to the successful
candidates will be declared on June 30.
“An extended merit list has also been drawn to facilitate
admission to other government institutions. Students on the
list might be counselled by the Indian Institute of Space-Science
Technology, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research
and Rajeev Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology. The Indian
Institute of Maritime Studies also offers admission based on
JEE-2008 results,” said the release.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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