UP board declares class X results

The Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Allahabad on Friday declared the High School (Class 10) examination results at 12:30 pm.

Students can get their results by entering their respective roll numbers on its official website http://upresults.nic.in/

Uniform admission fee for tech colleges in Odisha

There will be uniform admission fee for both private and government engineering colleges in the state this year. This was decided at a meeting chaired by director, technical education and training, Chandra Sekhar Kumar.

After the meeting, Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) secretary Priyabrata Sahoo said admission fee would be Rs 16,000 for all colleges. Last year, the fee was Rs 16,000 for government engineering colleges and Rs 30,000 for private colleges.

It was decided in the meeting that counselling for OJEE would be held after publication of All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) results, Sahoo said. Since many students may select colleges on the basis of their AIEEE ranks, the OJEE committee would wait the publication of AIEEE results, he added.

It was also decided that counselling will be done at 20 centres and students would be allowed to fill as many choices of college and stream combination as they want while registering online. Students would be required to come to the counseling centre only once.

AIEEE exam: No ‘right’ answers on website has students in a fix

Even as the Central Board of Secondary Education has uploaded the OMR answersheet of each student, who had appeared in AIEEE offline exam, on its website, the absence of right answers on it has left many candidates baffled. As, 'right' answers uploaded by various coaching centres across the country on their websites vary.

"In IIT-JEE too, the answer keys were uploaded that helped resolve some goofs. With various coaching centres uploading different 'right' answers, it has caused much confusion among candidates," said Sangeeta Khanna, who runs a coaching institute in Sector 24.

Divankar Sharma, who gave the offline exam, said, "I am still not clear about the right answers."

Rashmi Sehgal, who too wrote the offline exam, said, "The board should have given the answers, so that we know about our performance." The answersheets have been uploaded to enable students to challenge the board in case any of the answers differ from the one they marked during the offline test.

Online examination candidates do not have the option.

The scanned images of answersheets can be checked on its website www.cbse.nic.in and www.aieee.nic.in. If a candidate wants to challenge the uploaded answersheets, he can submit an application at any of the CBSE regional offices or at AIEEE unit at Patparganj, Delhi-92, on or before June 6 till 12 noon, along with the prescribed fees of Rs 500 per recorded response challenged.

Students go for printed Delhi University forms over virtual option

On the first day of Delhi University's undergraduate admission for 2012-13, students seemed to have preferred the printed centralized forms over the online option introduced this year.

A large number of students gathered at the 22 venues across the city, braving the heat on Monday, and bought 30,250 forms, with Arts Faculty at North Campus selling as many as 4,100 forms. DU witnessed 18,000 online registrations as well.

Long queues were seen at centres like Arts Faculty and Miranda House in North Campus, ARSD and deputy dean, students' welfare office, in South Campus; Gargi College and several post offices from 8 in the morning, two hours before the sale started. Gargi College, Ashok Vihar and New Delhi GPO ran out of forms and had to fetch more copies later. Delhi GPO fell short of the prospectus and asked aspirants to wait for it, leading to a huge crowd gathering inside.

While the colleges and other DU venues sold 15,500 forms, the 12 post offices sold 14,750 forms. "There is a greater rush than before," said Dinesh C Varshney, deputy dean, students' welfare, South Campus.

At Gargi College, aspirants started queuing outside from early morning and all forms were sold within an hour. "We had got around 1,000 forms in the first lot, but that got over within an hour of the counters opening at 10am. We got a second lot by 12.30pm and the distribution continued till 1.30pm and we could distribute around 500 more forms," said vice-principal Shashi Tyagi.

Over 700 forms were sold in the first two hours at ARDS while over 1,000 forms were sold at South Campus. Another 420-odd forms for the SC/ST category were also sold at the campus. A large number of outstation aspirants were seen queuing at North Campus.

Aspirants at South Campus was happy with the counselling facility available there. "Most of the students are enquiring about the best college and the best course available. A number of queries for English and commerce have been seen today," said Brij Lal, supervising officer, admissions, ARSD College.

Industry performance

The CII ASCON Survey for the period April-June 2012 (estimated) reveals sharp deceleration in the growth of industrial sectors as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, on the expectations of low investment spending , rupee depreciation, elevated inflation, high trade and fiscal deficits, and uncertain global economic recovery. "The ASCON Survey provides industry outlook for the period April-June 2012 compared to April-June 2011. The survey reveals that many industry sectors have shown a sharp deceleration in growth for April-June quarter of 2012 as compared to April-June (2011).
Most of the respondents of the ASCON survey revealed that the deceleration was mainly due to monetary tightening measures of RBI to control inflation and the effect of global economic slowdown which had a dampening effect on the demand. The situation calls for concerted effort from the Government and the RBI to ensure that we have a cohesive economic recovery plan," said Chandrajit Banerjee, director general , CII. The survey reveals that out of the 114 sectors surveyed comprising more than 35000 companies , for the period April-June 2012, 7.2% of the sectors are expected to register growth of more than 20% as compared to 20.7% in the corresponding period of 2011.