The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to come out with a revised list of All India JEE (Main) ranks on July 8 considering many students were left out of the counselling process for admission to the IITs and NITs.
They were left out because a few States did not add the Class XII scores to the result.
The All-India rankings were declared on June 30, by which date some States failed to provide the scores, putting the academic career of thousands of students at stake. “The board has decided to issue a revised list on July 8 to safeguard the interests of students, and as requested by the joint seat allocation authorities for admissions,” CBSE said in a statement.
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority is conducting the counselling for admission to the IITs, NITs and other centrally-funded technical institutes.
The CBSE said that despite reminders, “defaulting” State boards updated the information as late as July 3, thus, creating this situation at the time of joint counselling. It also dismissed media reports saying there was no delay in declaring the ranking list as claimed.
“It is to be clarified that there has been no delay in the declaration of All-India ranking. The ranking was declared on July 8 last year. The scheduled date this year was July 5 and CBSE has in fact declared it on June 30. It is clarified that the merit list of rankings declared on June 30 includes revised marks of all such candidates who had updated information by June 27,” the CBSE statement read.
