IIT-JEE results declared, over 13,000 declared successfull
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 22:02 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admissions into prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) were declared here today with 13,602 students passing the examination. Announcing the results, Director of IIT-Kanpur Prof Sanjay Govind Dhande said that IIT-Madras zone aspirant Immadi Purudhavi Tej topped the prestigious examination followed by Shubham Mehta of IIT-Bombay zone who got the second rank. Shyamak Reddy and Burle Sai Kiran from Madras zone grabbed the third and fourth ranks respectively whereas Nishith Lohati from Bombay zone got the fifth rank, Dhande said. Sumedha Garg from Roorkee zone topped among girls with an all-India ranking of 12. A total of 13,602 candidates were declared successful for the year 2011. Junga Varun and Ashish Sonone topped the OBC and SC categories whereas Pratyush Nalam topped in the category for physically disabled candidates. Bombay zone topped with a total of 3,336 candidates followed by Madras zone, which recorded a total of 3,126 successful candidates. Delhi zone stood third with 2,138 successful candidates. Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee zones achieved fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively whereas IIT-Guwahati zone recorded the lowest number of successful candidates with a total of 597. Dhande said that the first list of seat allotment will be uploaded on IIT-Kanpur''s website on June 21 whereas the second list will be issued on July 6. IIT- Kanpur was the nodal agency to conduct the examinations for the year 2011. A total of 4,68,240 candidates had appeared in the examination held on April 10, 2010. Students from Andhra Pradesh have yet again excelled in the Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), with the top spot going to Immadi Purudhavi Tej from the state. Also, Shyamak Reddy and Burle Sai Kiran from Madras zone have grabbed the third and fourth ranks respectively. Purudhavi Tej, who hails from Dwarka Tirumala in West Godavari district of Andhra, said he wanted to become an IAS officer. Purudhavi, who is still preparing for some other exams, had secured 970 marks out 1,000 in the std 12th examinations this year. Sai Kiran said he would like to do the course in Civil or Mechanical stream at the IIT Mumbai. During the IIT-JEE 2010 exams, seven students from Andhra Pradesh had grabbed the ranks amongst the top-10 with Anumula Jithendar Reddy topping the list. Bhargava Reddy obtained 8th rank while J Varun, also from Andhra Pradesh, obtained 9th rank. Plus, at least 30 students from the state figure in the top-hundred list (open category). Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy specially congratulated ten students (belonging SC/ST category) of the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential (APSWR) Junior College in Hyderabad, for cracking IIT-JEE. This is for the first time that students from a government institute have bagged 10 ranks in the IIT-JEE, officials said, adding all these students belong to Below-Poverty-Line families. APSWR was set up to train students from weaker sections of the society for the IIT-JEE. Amist all the happy news coming, Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) results of 30 aspirants, which were withheld following reports of mass copying at an examination centre in Bhatinda, will be declared on June 8, an IIT official said in Kanpur today. The withheld results will be declared after submission of the investigation report of the two-member committee that was constituted to probe into the matter, professor Dhande of IIT Kanpur said.
Source: PTI
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