OAV students secure admissions in top engineering institutes
The results were revealed after the final seat allotment of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-2025).
Chandra Sekhar Harpal of OAV Masanimunda has joined IIT Dharwad; Sunaram Marandi of OAV Jhargan has secured a seat at IIT Kharagpur; and Seema Gupta of OAV Kotpad has been admitted to IIT Patna.
Twenty students have earned places at NIT Rourkela. Four others, V Laxmi Raju, Soumya Ranjan Behera, Manmohan Dash and Pradeep Panda, have been admitted to IIIT Bhubaneswar.
Several students also secured seats in top state-level institutions, including the Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneswar, and VSSUT Burla, across branches such as computer science, mechanical, electrical, biotechnology and mining engineering.
Congratulating the successful candidates, school and mass education secretary Shalini Pandit extended her best wishes for their future academic pursuits.
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