Overview
- The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations board has issued a notification to run decentralised online counselling to fill residual engineering, architecture and pharmacy seats and to bar students who accepted seats in centralised counselling from taking part.
- The Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association says the restriction will prevent already-admitted, high-ranking students from seeking upgrades and could allow lower-ranked candidates who never secured a seat to take those vacancies.
- JUTA also objects to provisions that allow admission on the basis of Class 12 board marks and says using those scores would dilute WBJEE-based eligibility and merit criteria.
- The teachers’ body has demanded an immediate review and withdrawal of the directive and says the change raises legal and natural-justice concerns; WBJEE officials and the state higher education minister had not provided a public response in the available coverage.
- The dispute pits West Bengal’s state entrance process against calls to preserve a merit order tied to WBJEE and JEE-Main scores and could affect student choices, upgrade rounds and potential legal or ministerial intervention next.