IIT-Bombay and other IITs will continue with last year's admission policy and not include the OBC quota this year.

“We have received instructions from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) to follow last year’s admission policy and go ahead with admissions as per the seats of last year,” H S Pandalai, Organising Chairman of JEE 2007, said today while announcing the results of the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by the IITs at IIT-Bombay on today.

Accordingly, the results declared on Wednesday for the 2,43,029 candidates, including 20,892 SCs and 5,909 STs, did not include a separate list for the OBC category. However, around “17 to 18 per cent of the people who wrote the exam are likely to belong to the OBC category,” said Pandalai. The total number of seats across the seven IITs, the Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU) and the Indian School of Mines University (Dhanbad) has increased from 5,444 to 5,537 this year.

Significantly, the maximum number of candidates — 2,640 — has qualified from Bombay zone this year, followed by Madras (2,021), Delhi (1,594), Kharagpur (979), Kanpur (627), Roorkee (575) and Guwahati (199).

The first three all-India toppers are Achin Bansal (Delhi zone), Nitish Srivastava (Roorkee zone) and Ambrose Birani (Bombay zone). Anasuya Mandal, ranked 449, is the SC category topper while Varunie Shashni (ranked 983) topped the ST category. In all, 8,635 have been called for counselling for the 5,537 seats available.