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News18
5 days ago
- General
- News18
Delhi HC Allows Open School Students For JAC Counselling Without Class 12 Results
Last Updated: The Delhi High Court allowed open school students to join JAC counselling for engineering and architecture courses despite Class 12 result delays. JAC Counselling 2025: In a major relief for open school students waiting for their Class 12 results, the Delhi High Court has allowed them to take part in the Joint Admission Committee (JAC) counselling for engineering and architecture courses offered by Delhi government-funded universities, as reported by ANI. JAC is a group of institutions that conduct admissions based on JEE (Main) scores. Normally, it schedules counselling after the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) releases Class 12 results. However, this year, JAC closed its registration process on June 2, before the NIOS results were announced. This left many deserving open school students unable to apply, despite having good JEE scores. According to ANI report, one of the students, Om Upadhyay, who comes from the Economically Weaker Section (EWS), moved to the Delhi High Court on May 28. Om had scored an impressive 97.7 percentile in the JEE-Mains exam but was unable to register for counselling due to the delay in the result declaration. Other students facing the same issue joined him in the petition. They argued that students should not miss out on opportunities simply because of a delay in the board results and requested permission for provisional registration. On May 30, the Delhi High Court passed an order in their favour. The court directed JAC to allow these students to register physically on June 2 and to give them another chance for online registration on June 19, even if they don't have their Class 12 results yet. The court also asked NIOS to try and declare the Class 12 results by June 17, 2025, so that students can meet the admission timelines. In addition, JAC was told to inform other students in similar situations about this option so they can also register and participate in the counselling process. Following the count's order, JAC has released the revised schedule for JAC Counselling 2025 opening the registration window for a single day on June 19, 2025 before Round 2. According to the official schedule, those candidates who failed to register in the initial window will be able to register and complete the choice filling/editing process from 10 AM to 10.30 PM. Candidates must note that registration will not be allowed any further before any round throughout the JAC Delhi Admission Cycle. Applications received without a prescribed registration fee of Rs 1500 will not be considered. First Published: June 03, 2025, 10:44 IST
Indian Express
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Under huge stress': Open school students move Delhi HC as JEE-Mains counselling begins before their Class 12 results are out
Om Upadhyay performed better than 97.7 per cent of his competitors in the JEE-Mains exam but he was far from being elated about it. The reason? His Mains result came before his Class 12 open school results, which will only be released by the National Institute of Open Learning (NIOS) by the end of June. Despite scoring 97.7 percentile, he will not be allowed to participate in the counselling process, which is a prerequisite for getting admission in Delhi Technological University (DTU), Netaji Subhash University of Technology (NSUT), and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). 'I'm under tremendous stress. My luck didn't support me, it seems,' Om told The Indian Express. 'With these marks, I could have gotten into DTU… It was my dream,' he said. Aggrieved, Om, who belongs to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS), approached the Delhi High Court on May 28 seeking relief along with two other NIOS students who scored 91.66 percentile and 72.54 percentile (SC student). Their main grievance? That they are not even being allowed to appear provisionally before the Counselling Committee and are being discriminated against due to no fault of their own. While the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) have declared the results of the Class 12 examination, open school students have been left in the lurch, anxiously waiting for their results with every passing minute. The open school examinations concluded on May 19, while the JEE Mains result was out a month earlier, on April 18. The petitioners moved the Delhi High Court against the Joint Admission Committee, which is a consortium of institutions for admission to undergraduate programmes in Delhi government-funded premier universities offering engineering and architecture programmes. The admissions are done on the basis of the rank of students in the JEE Mains exam. The four participating institutions are offering 6,491 seats in engineering this year. 'In the past, JAC released their schedule for Counselling in a manner so that the last date of applying in the Counselling is post the declaration of Class XII result by NIOS. This was done in order to accommodate the students of Class XII, who appeared through open school, so that they can actively participate in the JAC Counselling and compete with the students from the other boards,' read the plea moved by the three students who were represented in court by advocates Ankit Singh Sinsinwar, Ravi Kumar and Dhananjay. 'However, to the shock and surprise of Petitioners, commencement of Online registration and choice filling was to be done from 21.05.2025 (May 21) and last date and time for Online registration and choice filling was 02.06.2025 (June 6), till 10.30 pm,' stated the plea, while seeking relief. 'If the Petitioners are denied the opportunity to even participate in the Counselling process, their whole year shall get wasted and it cannot be even explained the mental trauma and anxiety they would undergo for not even being allowed to sit in the Counselling process, without any fault of theirs,' it added. The counselling for JAC universities will go on for five rounds. After the five rounds are concluded, a registration portal and choice filling/editing portal will be opened on June 19 by the JAC as a one-time measure. However, the petitioners will not be able to seek this relief as well as their results are likely to be out after June 20. The Class 12 marksheet is relevant only to the extent that it assesses the minimum qualifying marks which are 60 per cent or more for the BTech courses offered by NSUT and DTU and 70 per cent for the same courses at IIIT-Delhi. In the plea, the petitioners have also cited the example of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) which has been set up by the Ministry of Education to manage and regulate the joint seat allocation for admissions to 127 institutes across the country, including 23 IITs and 31 NITs. The JoSAA allows candidates to participate in the counselling process in case the Class 12 results are awaited, subject to them providing the relevant documents at the time of admission. Close to 1.5 lakh students appeared for NIOS exams across India. The Delhi High Court, meanwhile, reserved its order on May 30. 'This is the first time the JAC has done this… It was totally unexpected. I am hoping we can get relief from the high court,' Om said.
Indian Express
30-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025: Where to check Junior Associate results?
SBI Clerk Mains result 2025: The State Bank of India (SBI) is likely to release the SBI Clerk Mains result 2025 this week. Candidates who have appeared for the Junior Associates (Customer Support and Sales) exam can view their results on SBI's official website — The SBI Clerk recruitment exam was conducted this year to fill 13,732 vacancies of Junior Associate (Customer Support and Sales) posts. This figure includes 5,870 vacancies for the unreserved category, 3,001 for Other Backward Classes (OBC), 2,118 for Scheduled Caste (SC), 1,385 for Scheduled Tribe (ST), and 1,361 for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). Candidates' sectional and overall marks along with the cutoff scores for different categories will be displayed on the score card. Candidates who qualify the mains will be required to appear for the personality test and interview. The credentials required to check the recruitment test's results are roll number, date of birth and other details as asked by examination authority. Step 1: Visit SBI's official website — Step 2: Scroll down and click on the 'Careers' section. Step 3: Click on 'Current Openings' Step 4: In the following tab, select 'Recruitment of Junior Associates' in the 'Select Post' scroll down menu. Step 5: Find the link related to 'Prelims/Mains Result for SBI Junior Associates for exam'. Step 6: View and download the SBI Clerk Mains Result 2025 pdf Step 7: The pdf will contain a merit list with the names of qualified candidates. Look for your roll number using 'CTRL+F' and download the merit list for future reference. The SBI Clerk Mains 2025 exam were held on April 10 and 12. The 200-mark test comprised of questions from General/Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude. 1/4th mark is deducted for each wrong answer. The SBI Prelims were held on February 22, 27, 28 and March 1, 2025. SBI announced the results for SBI Clerk Preliminary Examination 2025 on March 28.
NDTV
15-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Odisha Reserves 11.25 Per Cent Of Seats For SEBC Category In Higher Education
Bhubaneswar, May 14: The Odisha government on Wednesday decided to reserve 11.25 per cent of seats for the students belonging to the Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC), taking the total ratio of quota in education to 50 per cent in the state. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. "Our government, within 11 months of its tenure, has given justice to the students belonging to the SEBC category," Majhi said. Though the SEBC candidates were earlier getting reservation in jobs (11.25 per cent), there was no provision in education for which the opposition BJD and Congress were making demands both inside the Assembly and outside. Briefing reporters, the chief minister said that it is a landmark decision of the government to introduce an 11.25 per cent reservation in admission for students belonging to SEBC in universities, state government and aided higher secondary and higher education institutions from the academic year 2025-26. Majhi said the initiative ensures uniform implementation of reservation in admission for students belonging to ST (22.5 per cent), SC (16.25 per cent), SEВС (11.25 per cent), persons with disability (5 per cent) and ex-servicemen (one per cent) in institutions under the state government. The decision is taken in line with National Education Policy 2020, the chief minister said, adding that the move aims to promote access, equity, and inclusion, increase the gross enrolment ratio, and enhance opportunities for marginalized and disadvantaged communities in Odisha. However, the opposition BJD and Congress demanded at least 27 per cent reservation for the SEBC or OBC students in the education sector, including the medical and engineering courses. Senior BJD leader Arun Kumar Sahoo said, "The state government has not provided the reservation for the OBC students in medical and engineering courses. We demand the government to implement it immediately." If the reservation system is implemented in the medical and engineering courses, then only the SC, ST and OBC students can benefit, Sahoo said. "At least 27 per cent reservation should be provided to the OBC students. After bringing an amendment to prevailing law, the reservation should be enhanced to 54 per cent. The SC and ST should also get the reservation as per their population," the BJD leader demanded. State Congress president Bhakta Charan Das also said that the government should reconsider the decision, otherwise it would face protests across Odisha. "The government needs to provide 27 per cent reservation to the OBC students. The government has not made any change in the admission into medical and technical education courses," Das said. Despite repeated demands, the BJP government is playing with the future of the SC, ST and OBC people, who comprise 94 per cent of the state's population, he said. The Cabinet also approved five other proposals including merger of the state-sponsored Mamata scheme with the Centre's Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY). The scheme will be named Mamata-PMMVY. Earlier, beneficiaries used to get Rs 10,000 for the birth of a girl child under Mamata Yojana. Now, they will get Rs 12,000, the chief minister said. Beneficiaries will receive Rs 10,000 for the birth of a boy child under MAMATA-PMMVY. Women from PVTG community will be given Rs 12,000 for the birth of a girl child and Rs 10,000 for the birth of a boy for all live births, he stated. Anganwadi Workers and Anganwadi Helpers, who used to get Rs 200 and Rs 100 respectively as incentive earlier, will now receive Rs 250 and Rs 150, Majhi said. In the next five years, the expenditure on Mamata-PMMVY would be about Rs 2,670 crore, he said. The state has also decided to construct a barrage in Mayurbhanj district at a cost of Rs 97.67 crore. The work is planned to be completed in 30 months, the CM said. The barrage would be built across the river Khairibhandan near village Analabeni in Jashipur block to provide assured kharif irrigation in the drought-prone region, inhabited mostly by backward, weaker and tribal population, he added.
The Hindu
30-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
As Union government decides to enumerate caste, Ashwini Vaishnaw insists SECC, State efforts were ‘surveys'
While announcing that the Union Cabinet has decided to enumerate caste in the next Census, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw made it a point to argue that the 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) and caste enumeration exercises conducted by State governments were just 'surveys'. 'The Census is a Union subject, but some States have done it (caste enumeration). Some States had done it well, while some States have done this purely from a political angle in a non-transparent manner,' Mr. Vaishnaw said at the Union Cabinet briefing, in a reference to Bihar, Karnataka and Telangana governments which have tried to enumerate caste. The Union government is considering codifying a list of castes and sub-castes to ensure the number of castes is not as unwieldy as it was in the 2011 SECC. The Bihar, Karnataka, and Telangana goverments had all drawn up a list of castes and communities, while leaving room for people to identify with communities that might not be on the list. For instance, Bihar had 214 entries in the list of castes, Karnataka had over 1,300 and Telangana had over 200. All three States used their respective State list of castes, sub-castes, and communities to arrive at the list for enumeration. While the SC and ST lists for each State are singular and decided upon by Parliament, Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBCs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) are categorised separately by State and UT governments as well. The Central list of OBC lists 2,650 communities across the country while an independent analysis of State OBC lists showed over 3,651 communities categorised as such. The Bihar government began conducting a caste-based survey in 2022, announcing its report about a year later; the Telangana government announced its decision to undertake a survey in January 2024 and announced its completion in about a year as well. In Karnataka's case, the survey was conducted in 2015 when the State was run by a Congress-led government, and a report based on the data collected then was finalised and submitted to the government only in 2024. The Bihar survey covered 13.07 crore people across the State, which is slightly higher than what its population was projected to be in 2023, according to Government of India estimates. The Telangana survey covered 3.54 crore people, which comes to about 92.91% of the State's projected population at the time. Karnataka's survey covered a total of 5.98 crore, almost 95% of the then-projected population of the State. Findings challenged However, the findings of the caste enumeration exercise in each of these States have been challenged by Opposition leaders and certain communities alike. In Bihar and Karnataka, one of the criticisms was that the survey did not cover all of the population. Both the Karnataka and Telangana surveys have been questioned for their estimates of Backward Classes population, with accusations of an undercount. Mr. Vaishnaw also stressed that the Narendra Modi-led government would conduct this exercise 'transparently'. None of the States that have so far tried to enumerate caste and their respective populations have made the entirety of the reports and data public. All three governments had tabled reports on the survey exercise in their respective Assemblies or before the State Cabinets. But apart from the population of each caste, and their percentage in comparison to the State's population, not much else from the surveys have been made public.
