Fresh JEE ranks for TS students by July 4

Hyderabad: Putting to rest apprehensions and anxiety among students and parents, deputy chief minister Kadiyam Srihari on Thursday announced that efforts were on to get the JEE Main ranks for students whose names were missing from the BIE list provided to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

He said, “We are concentrating on getting the ranks for the affected 1,188 students whose details were not sent to the CBSE by Telangana Board of Intermediate Education due to oversight.” Speaking to media at secretariat, he said that the list was again sent to the central board and the process of generating ranks for the students from State has already begun. “Fresh ranks will be generated for State students by July 4 and the exercise of options would be on July 4 & 5. The final list of fresh



ranks will be released onJuly 7.”

He said that Central Seat Allocation Board has instructed CBSE to generate fractional ranks for students if their marks deserve any rank. The minister also said that action would be taken against officials responsible for the goof-up. “Government will not spare anyone who is responsible for this grave mistake and departmental action will be taken against them,” he said.

The minister said that after the Telangana government promptly responded to the issue, boards of a few other States were also allowed to submit and correct their mistakes by submitting details of the respective students. Education chief secretary Ranjeev R Acharya and other officials were already sent to New Delhi for sorting out the issue with CBSE.