WBJEE Result 2025: Candidates asked to update category after Supreme Court order on OBC list

After the Supreme Court order put a hold on the Calcutta HC order staying the new list of OBCs, the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) has asked candidates to update their social category ahead of WBJEE result 2025. Students can update their category details by August 2 online on the official website, wbjeeb.nic.in.

The board is giving the opportunity to the candidates awaiting the WBJEE 2025 results in order to implement the advisory issued by the higher education department after the SC order. Notably, the WBJEE results have been delayed over the legal proceedings on the OBC reservation in education and recruitment in the state.

“In order to give effect to the order dated 28.07.2025 of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India passed in SLP(C) No. 17422 of 2025 (State of West Bengal v Purabi Das & Ors.) and other connected matters and consequences arising therefrom, and in compliance with a directive - cum- legal advisory issued by the Government of West Bengal in the Higher Education Department on 30.7.2025, all WBJEE -2025 candidates are hereby given an opportunity to update their Social Category Details (prior to publication of results and document verification) by 02.08.2025 [ up to 11: 59 PM],” the board stated in the latest notification.

WBJEE Board informed that the verification of the documents submitted in support of the social category claimed by the candidate will be verified by the allotted institute at the time of BTech admissions.

The final decision on WBJEE result and WBJEE counselling 2025 for engineering admissions will be subject to the outcome of the pending legal proceedings, the board added.

WBJEE 2025 was conducted on April 27 for admission to undergraduate programmes in engineering, technology, architecture, and pharmacy.

Supreme Court order on OBC list

The top court on July 28 stayed the Calcutta High Court's decision that had stalled the implementation of a revised list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) notified by the West Bengal government.

A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria observed, “Prima facie, the high court order seems to be erroneous,”. The apex court was hearing the appeal of the state government.

On June 17, the Calcutta HC ordered an interim stay on notifications issued by the state government with regard to reservations to 140 sub-sections under OBC-A and OBC-B categories. The West Bengal government had prepared the new list after the high court, in May last year, quashed the inclusion of as many as 77 communities in the OBC list.