The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which is entrusted with the task of conducting the examination JEE (Main) engineering 2014, on Thursday gave its nod for three more centres at Angul, Bhawanipatna and Jeypore for better convenience of the aspirants.
Earlier, the board had approved centres in six towns including Bhuabneswar, Cuttack, Brahmapur, Sambalpur, Baleswar and Rourkela.
The State Government had requested the CBSE to increase the number of examination centres from six to 10 for JEE (Main) 2014 looking at the number of aspirants and after it decided to scrap Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) from coming year.
The registration process for the examination began on November 15 and will continue till December 26. The offline examination is scheduled for April 6, 2014 while the online (computer-based) examination will be conducted on April 9, 11, 12 and 19.