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.
IIT JEE results announced; Nitin Jain of Faridabad topper
Do YOU know these Famous people from Faridabad?
* Maharani Kishori - wife of Jat Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India; married in 1730.
* Raja Nahar Singh - Jat King of the princely state of Ballabhgarh in Faridabad (1823 – 1858)
* Sonu Nigam - Indian playback singer (born 1973)
* Richa Sharma - Indian playback singer (born 1972)
* Upendra Bisht - Global HR professional (born 1977) currently based in Dubai
* Ajay Ratra - Indian cricketer (born 1981)
* Mahesh Rawat - Indian cricketer (born 1985)
Badarpur Flyover Progress Report
New year 2009 seems to have brought new hopes for the city of Faridabad. This long neglected district which was once a glorious industrial township was recently being dubbed as Gurgaons poor cousin. Connectivity was a major bottleneck.
A flyover at Badarpur was proposed for long due. After almost two decades of flip-flops, the contract was finally awarded to Hindustan Construction. The project is scheduled to be completed by end 2010.
The progress is also visible. On both sides of NH-2 digging of roads apparently to create provision of service roads is quite visible. Infact at some places the depth is so much that even today one could feel as if it is an elevated road.
However, this road might mean bad news to some of the existing commercial establishments. The upcoming mall at Destination Point, which was earlier being developed by Senior Builders, rechristened as Indiabulls Mega Mart, could be affected by the flyover because of non-access from the new flyover. The IT Park by Vatika group could also face the same issue.
The flyover is to conclude someone near the Sarai Chowk, beyond Sec 37. The Abacus Techno Park developed by Crown-Aerens could be marginally affected depending on the end point of the flyover. However, the prestigious Crown-Interiorz mall by the same developer looks beyond the concluding point and could rather get the connectivity advantage and may attract visitors from adjoining Sarita Vihar and other parts of South Delhi. Similarly the RPS IT Park may also remain unaffected.
Exact impacts would be known as and when things shape up.
