NEET-JEE will get free coaching
Jharkhand news: Hemant Soren Government of Jharkhand has launched an ambitious scheme for tribal students, under which 300 meritorious tribal students will be made doctors and engineers every year. NEET and JEE free coaching will be given for this. Preparations are underway to finalize the tender process by August 13 for the selection of the coaching agency. After this, students will be selected on the basis of merit and provided coaching facilities.
Welfare Commissioner Kuldeep Chaudhary said that separate batch will be made for tribal students. Students of class 11th will be given two years of coaching, in which 75 students will prepare JEE and 75 students NEET. Similarly, there will be one year coaching for students of class 12th, in which 75 students will be prepared for JEE and 75 students NEET.
He said that there is a proposal to construct a building for coaching in Ranchi. Till then coaching will begin in the existing buildings of the Welfare Department in Hindpiri. These buildings will also have housing and food arrangements for the selected students. This is the first time that such a scheme is being launched on such a large scale for poor and promising tribal students. However, the process of student selection is not yet decided.
On the questions arising about the safety of the coaching center in Hindpiri, Kripanand Jha, Secretary, Welfare Department said that he himself has inspected the site. There are several buildings of the department, which are suitable for coaching. The transparent open tender process will be adopted for agency selection. After the completion of the tender process, the process of student selection will begin.
The Akanksha Yojana of the Jharkhand government has already opened the doors of success for meritorious and poor students. Under this scheme, students of class 11th and 12th are given free residential coaching of medical and engineering along with higher secondary studies. Initially 40-40 students were built, which have now increased to 75 students for medical and 100 students for engineering.
Students are selected through the entrance examination conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council. The Department of School Education and Literacy launched the scheme in 2016-17. Now the Welfare Department is giving this initiative more detail for tribal students.