Bhubaneswar: Shradharabinda Samantray and Ishant Kumar Nayak secured the top position in MBA and MCA respectively in the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE), 2022, the results of which were declared Wednesday.
Similarly, Arup Kumar was the topper in B Pharm while Sachin Nayak secured first position in M Pharm, Sanjeev Pradhan in M.Tech (Civil Engineering), Pankaj Kumar and Ranjan Mohapatra in M.Tech (Electronics) and M.Tech (Mechanical).
Odisha’s Minister for Skill Development and Technical Education Department, P R Ghadai declared the results of OJEE – 2022 and released the results booklet.
The minister said this year, OJEE was held between July 4 and July 8 adopting all precautionary measures in compliance with relevant COVID guidelines.
The Entrance Examination was held for various technical/professional courses, such as B. Pharm, and LE-Tech. (Dip), LE-Tech. (B.Sc.), B CAT (2 streams), MBA, MCA, Int. MBA, LE-Pharm, M Pharm, M Arch, M Plan and M Tech (11 specialisations) running in different government and private institutes /universities of the state for the academic year 2022–23.
The Entrance Examination was conducted in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode for all the courses. Test Centres were set up in all the 30 districts of the state with a total of 61 test centres in 30 cities of the state as well as four centres in three cities outside Odisha, Kolkata, Ranchi and Patna.
This year, a total of 57,898 candidates registered for the examination, of whom 47,761 candidates (82.5 %) appeared in the test.
A total of 47,729 candidates have been allotted ranks in their corresponding courses as per their performance in the examination, the minister said, adding that the candidates can download their rank cards from the OJEE website (www.Ojee.Nic.In).
All the candidates, who have been awarded ranks, can take part in OJEE counselling for admission to different technical/professional courses in government and private colleges/Institutes of Odisha corresponding to their rank and other qualifying criteria, he said.
The official source said that the OJEE counselling registration and choice filling 2022 at the official website will commence from August 10.
PTI