The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has completed its preparations for the main Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is scheduled to be held on April 6 in the State.
According to the CBSE sources, about 49,000 students would sit for the examinations at 90 centres in nine cities of Odisha of which 28 centres are at Bhubaneswar, nine at Cuttack, 12 at Brahmapur, 10 at Sambalpur, eight at Rourkela, 12 at Baleswar, two at Bhawanipatna, four at Jeypore and five at Angul.
While a maximum of 20,000 students would appear in the city, the lowest number of 1200 candidates would appear at Bhawanipatna centre in Kalahandi district, the sources added.Notably, about 20,000 students had appeared the JEE Mains examination held at Rourkela last year.