IIT JEE results announced; Nitin Jain of Faridabad topper

Nitin Jain of Faridabad emerged the topper among more than 10,000 students who qualified in the IIT JEE (Joint Entrance Exam) 2009, the results of which were declared this morning.

Altogether 10,035 students, including 1,048 girls, succeeded in this year's IIT-JEE. The highest number of 2,831 students have qualified from the Mumbai zone.

Talking to UNI soon after the declaration of the results, Nitin said:'' I worked really hard for the exams but never expected such kind of success. But let me say this is no fluke, I really toiled for the exams.

''But the hard work does not end here. I have to go far ahead for which I will have to continue to work hard,’’ he added.

Incidentally, Tanvi Aggarwal, who recently topped the CBSE exams, also belonged to Faridabad.

A whopping 3.98 lakh students had applied for the JEE this year for admission to nearly 6,000 seats in 15 IITs. The results are available on the IIT JEE website from 0800 hrs today. The exams were conducted on April 12 this year.

Counselling of successful candidates for allocation of seats will be held from June 9 to 16. This year, admissions will also be made to two new IITs-IIT Indore and IIT Himachal Pradesh. Both new IITs will have 120 seats each. IIT Indore will be mentored by IIT Bombay while IIT Himachal Pradesh will be looked after by IIT Roorkee.

All seven of the old IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Roorkee have reserved 18 per cent seats for OBC candidates this year, while at the new IITs at Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan 27 per cent of the total number of seats have been reserved for the OBC candidates.