KEAM rank list to be republished after Kerala HC action

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has decided to publish a revised rank list of Kerala Engineering Architecture and Medical entrance examination after the Kerala High Court scrapped the rank list published last week.

Even as the state government filed an appeal against an order of the Kerala High Court single bench on Wednesday to cancel the rank list, the appeal was rejected on Thursday. Subsequently, state higher education minister R Bindu announced that the new rank list would be published today itself.

The HC scrapped the rank list as the state government made changes in the normalisation methodology by giving more weightage for marks secured by students in the Kerala state syllabus than to CBSE and ICSE students.

This was done in view of complaints raised by students under the state syllabus that they were getting behind in the rank lists published in previous years.

A group of CBSE-ICSE students challenged the changes made in the normalisation methodology after holding the examinations. Hence the HC scrapped the rank list and directed the government to publish a new rank list based on the normalisation methodology mentioned while conducting the exam.

The rank of students from the state syllabus will go down once the new rank list is published. Earlier there were around 40 students from state syllabus among the top 100 rank holders, including the toppers.

Opposition Congress-led UDF accused the state government for creating uncertainty by making changes in the last minutes in the normalisation methodology.