Steel City braces up for AIEEE Exam on April 7

Rourkela: The district administration has chalked out a detailed plan for smooth conduct of All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE- JEE Main)-2013 to be held on April 7 and to avoid predictable inconvenience to candidates appearing for the national-level entrance test for admission into central technical institutions.

Rourkela is the only offline examination centre for AIEEE (JEE Main) while Bhubaneswar is the online centre for JEE (Main) in the state. As many as 20,164 students are expected to come to the steel city for the test while 33 examination centres are selected to cover such a huge number students to appear for the examination.

The district administration has made necessary arrangements to tackle issues like accommodation for students and their guardians, drinking water facilities, route chart, communication facilities through buses, autos and safety of students.

Around 40,000 aspirants along with their parents and guardians are expected to turn up in the city. Considering shortage of hotel rooms and hygienic food for them, several voluntary organizations will provide dormitory accommodation with food at nominal charges or free of cost.

A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting between various voluntary organizations, associations and Rourkela Municipality convened by Rourkela ADM Rabindranath Mishra last evening at ADM office.

“We had appealed earlier to all concerned to ensure a comfortable stay for students and their guardians during the examination here. Till now, 45 shelter homes have been arranged for around 5575 people in different locations in and around Rourkela,” said Mishra.

The meeting decided that the volunteers will run a control room/help desk at the Rourkela railway station from where students will be ushered to shelter homes for free accommodations on April 6 and 7 who don’t have confirmed booking in any hotels. Marwadi Youth Mancha, a social organization, has decided to arrange breakfast at Rs. 5 and meal at Rs. 10 on both days near railway station. A route chart has been made by the district administration. It will be displayed at bus stand and railway station to help aspirants find their way to the examination centres. As many as 100 buses including 40 school buses and 60 private buses have been pressed into service on exam days. Rs. 10 has been fixed as fare for all locations in Rourkela and even to Bisra, Bandhamunda, Kuarmunda, Vedvyas, Biramitrapur.

All centres will be supplied with cold water tanks by the Rourkela Municipality to erase thirst for aspirants. Many small and medium hotels are also making temporary dormitory arrangements for the students on these two days. Bus and auto operators have been asked not to take advantage of the rush and refrain from levying extra charges. A fare chart to different locations has been supplied to bus and auto operators by the district administration. If neglected, the concerned auto and bus driver will be booked/ punished under law.

Members of Rajasthan Parishad, Haryana Nagarika Sangha, Lions’ Clubs, Rotary Club and many other outfits are keen to provide accommodation, food and drinking water facilities for the examinees. Besides, notice has been sent to the representatives of Private Bus Owners Association and Auto Owners Associations to cordially help the students and guardians positively in these days.

East Coast Railways (ECoR) has decided to introduce three special trains to Rourkela from Puri and Bhubaneswar on April 6 to avoid a possible rush in view of the ensuing AIEEE-JEE Main examination in the Steel City on April 7. The Puri-Rourkela-Puri special train will leave Puri at 5.25 am on April 6 and reach Rourkela at 3.30 pm, the same day. Another pair of special train, Bhubaneswar-Rourkela via Chakradharpur, will leave Bhubaneswar at 9.15 am on April 6 and reach Chakradharpur at 9 in the evening.