HC directs WB JEE Board to allow students to give a second option for admission

Updated on: Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Board to allow students to give a second option for admission to engineering colleges during the second round of counselling, which is scheduled to begin from July 13.
 
Justice Girish Gupta directed the Board to give an advertisement in vernacular and English dailies stating that the students, who could till now give one choice for studying in an institution, would be able to give a second option.
 
St Mary's Technological Foundation, a minority institution, had moved a petition claiming that the process being followed at present was not proper and was affecting the students.
 
Justice Gupta directed the JEE Board and the petitioner to file cross affidavits within six weeks.

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