In a major relief for the students of Rao Junior College, they will now be able to register for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC – Class XII) examination through other nearby colleges. Education officers of respective zones have issued orders to other colleges to accommodate the students, as their college lacks an index number using which registration for the state board examination is done.

As Rao Junior College lacks the required approval from the education department, it was never allotted the index number. Parent of a student of the college said, "It was a shocking revelation just two months before the examination. Especially since admission is done through the centralised online process, there was no way we could have anticipated something like this. We thought the college has all the required approvals."