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4. It is further submitted that due to outbreak of COVID-19
pandemic, the Department of Higher & Technical Education,
Government of Jharkhand vide letter no. 799 dated 15.07.2021
decided to prepare merit list for admission in recognized B.Ed
colleges for the Session 2021-2023 purely on the basis of marks
obtained by the students in qualifying exam i.e., Bachelor's Degree in
the applicable subjects with qualifying marks and JCECEB was
authorized to prepare the merit list on the aforesaid basis without
taking any examination. It was also mentioned in the said letter that
the appearing batch students of final year/semester of Bachelor
degree qualifying examination would also be allowed to apply for the
Session 2021-2023, but at the time of preparation of state level merit
list, appearing batch students would upload marksheet of Bachelor
degree with minimum qualifying marks. Pursuant to the said decision,
online applications were invited from eligible students for admission
in Government/Government Aided/Unaided/Self-financed and Private
recognized B.Ed institutions for the Session 2021-2023. Clause-4 of
the said advertisement stipulated that appearing batch students could
also apply online by paying requisite application fee as mentioned in
Clause-7 of the advertisement, subject to uploading their graduation
marks/result till 27.09.2021 (i.e., the last date of submitting the
online application), failing which their names would not be included in
the final state merit list. It is further submitted that before
preparation of final state merit list, JCECEB vide advertisement no.
JCECEB/28/21- 40 Ranchi dated 08.10.2021 issued a public notice
providing time schedule for first round online counselling for B.Ed
course - 2021 and as per the said time schedule, the admissions were
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to be completed by 30.10.2021 after publication of final state merit
list for 1st round of online counselling on 14.10.2021. One of the
petitioners-colleges represented the competent authority of the State
Government requesting to get the qualifying examination result
cleared at the earliest and further to allow the eligible students to be
included in the admission process starting from 25.10.2021. After
completion of first round of online interview/counselling, most of the
seats in the colleges remained vacant, therefore, JCECEB, vide
advertisement no. JCECEB/28/21-50/Ranchi dated 03.11.2021,
notified second round of online interview/counselling for those
students who had not appeared in first round of counselling or could
not get the desired college or could not be allotted any of the
colleges in the first round of counselling and the last date of
admission was fixed as 04.12.2021. Similarly, after completion of 2nd
round of online interview/counselling most of the seats in the
colleges remained vacant. Therefore, JCECEB, vide advertisement no.
JCECEB/28/21-70/Ranchi dated 27.12.2021, notified 3rd round of
online interview/counselling for those students who had not appeared
in 2nd counselling or could not get desired college in the 2nd round of
counselling and the last date of admission was fixed as 22.01.2022.
Though, JCECEB in the 2nd & 3rd round of counselling provided option
of editing the application forms by the registered candidates which
resulted in constant change of merit list by the JCECEB, but the
successful candidates of Bachelor Degree Qualifying Exam after
27.09.2021 were not allowed to upload their mark-sheet of Bachelor
degree. After completion of 3rd round of online interview/counselling,
the seats in the colleges still remained vacant, therefore, JCECEB,
vide advertisement no. JCECEB/28/21- 168 Ranchi dated 11.03.2022,
notified 4th round of online interview/counselling for those students
who had not appeared in 3rd counselling or could not get desired
college in the 3rd round of counselling and the last date of admission
was fixed as 19.03.2022. The Department of Higher & Technical
Education, Government of Jharkhand vide letter no. 555 dated
28.04.2022 directed the Examination Controller, JCECEB, Ranchi to
complete the process of filling-up the left over seats after 4th round of
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counselling through the B.Ed colleges in the manner as provided in
the said letter, but this time also, JCECEB was directed to consider
only those registered students who had passed their Bachelors
qualifying examination till 27.09.2021 and not thereafter as was done
in all 4 rounds of counselling. Pursuant to the said direction issued by
the Government of Jharkhand, JCECEB vide advertisement no.
JCECEB 28/21-39 Ranchi dated 29.04.2022 issued notice for filling-up
the vacant seats latest by 17.05.2022 through open method i.e.,
directly through the concerned B.Ed colleges, but on the basis of
complete merit list (CML) prepared by JCECEB on 14.10.2021.