On HRD ministry's direction, IIT board releases extended merit list; 31,980 candidates qualify in all

NEW DELHI: As many as 31,980 applicants have cleared the JEE-Advanced exam with the IIT's Joint Admission Board (JAB) issuing an extended merit list following directions from the HRD ministry.
The prolonged merit list was once issued following a gathering of the JAB today.

"Choice filling on JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority) would be started on 15th June as scheduled earlier. Students in the extended merit list can start filling up their options along with others," an official statement said.

Earlier within the day, the HRD ministry for the first time issued directions to the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) to release a supplementary merit list for admission this 12 months.

IIT Kanpur, which is the organizing institute for JEE-Advanced this 12 months, was once requested to release the merit list with the choice of applicants, which is two times the choice of general seats on offer in each discipline and each class (general and reserved categories).

The institute was once requested to release the supplementary merit list before choice-filling for joint seat allocation for IITs and NITs begins this week.

"Responding to requests from students and IIT community to proactively ensure that all reservation seats are duly filled, I have directed @IIT Kanpur conducting JEE advanced to make available candidates, strictly as per merit, twice the number of seats in each category," Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted.

The choice of applicants who qualified the exam has always been at least two times the choice of seats on offer. This 12 months, on the other hand, the 18,138 scholars on the merit list are just one.6 times the entire seats, making it the smallest choice of qualified applicants since 2012.