mumbai iit and nit aspirants anxiety increased manifold on monday as cbse failed to release the expected ranks of jee main paperi and paperii which has forced authorities to defer the joint seat allocation process by one more day this is the second revision in schedule in a week for the firstever joint seat allocation process for 85 governmentfunded technical institutes including iits and nits admissions to maharashtras engineering colleges may be delayed if the jee main paperi ranks are not released by tuesday morning when the seat allocation process is scheduled to commence according to the original schedule the process was to start on june 25 more than 13 lakh students were to be part of the process for admissions to 34000 seats cbse officials remained unavailable for comment on the delay iitbombay the organizing iit for jee advanced this year is inundated with calls from anxious students and parents a source blamed the delay on a few state boards including odisha mizoram and tripura which did not send their results data in time besides cbse is yet to announce the scores of jee main paperii leave alone the ranks in the boards defence a cbse official had earlier said that according to the original schedule the ranks were to be released only in the first week of july a professor said students are anxious as admissions to several private institutes across the country have already begun students have got seats there but they will want to try for a better option in iits and nits too once they pay the fees and block seats it will be difficult for them get a refund even if students forego the money they will have to submit their original documents for admissions which they will need for iit and nit admissions said an iitbombay professor the institute has set up a makeshift help centre of sorts and assigned three students from the campus to answer calls from restless students students who want to know their jee main ranks to decide whether they will be able to get into nits at all are more nervous said a parent it is frustrating as students are continuously logging on to the jee main site to check for announcement of ranks cbse has not even given a tentative time for the announcement if they give us a specific date and time students will be less anxious said another parent iits on their part put up the revised schedule by monday evening on their sitejeeadviitbacin despite their apprehensions iits agreed to a joint seat allocation process an mhrd initiative after a delhi high court directive since the joint process takes into consideration multiple rank lists iits have to wait for jee main ranks for paperi and paperii once the ranks are out the joint seat allocation authority josaa can open the portal for students to register in two to three hours said a note on josaas official website iits hope the results will be out by