IIT-JEE coaching for poor high school students organised at Electronics Engineering Dept.
IIT Alumni Help To Poor Students
HT Correspondent
Varanasi, October 9
THE ALUMNI of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and some others institutes have convened a free one-month coaching camp for the talented students, belonging to poor families.
The camp is being held at the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, here.
One hundred talented students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti have been selected through the Talent Search Examination held on July 16 this year under the All-India Talent Promotion Campaign across the country.
The coaching camp, aimed at the Joint Entrance Examination-2007, started at G-14 Hall of Electronics Engineering Department in the IT-BHU on Monday. BHU Vice-Chancellor Prof Panjab Singh will formally inaugurate the camp on Wednesday.
Twenty-eight scholars, including director of IIT-Mumbai, Prof Ashok Mishra, deputy director of IIT-Kanpur Prof Kripa Shanker, director of IT-BHU, Prof. SN Upadhyay, head of nuclear physics department at IIT-Kanpur, Prof HC Sharma and chairman of the All-India Talent Promotion Campaign and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof SK Sharma will conduct the camp.
Among other scholars who would give valuable tips to clear the JEE examination in the camp include president of IIT-Delhi Alumni Association and also a faculty member of IIT-Delhi, Prof SS Murty, Prof PK Ray, Dr KN Singh and Dr BK Mishra of IIT-Kharagpur, Dr UK Singh of Indian School of Mines (Dhanbad) and Prof TN Singh of IIT-Mumbai will conduct the camp.
Secretary of the All India Talent Promotion Campaign and an alumni of IT-BHU, Shashank Chaturvedi said main objective of the camp was to extend support to those talented students who are unable to bear the expenses of coaching classes.
He said the Alumni Associations of IITs and other institutes that had over 500 members would bear all the expenses of this camp.
He said a Talent Search Examination was conducted in 544 schools of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti on July 16 across the country this year. As many as 10,000 students took the examination and 100 students were selected for this camp, he said.
He added that these 100 students were selected from eight regions of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. `There are nine students from Shilong region, 11 from Jaipur, 12 from Chandigarh, 15 from Pune, 13 from Patna, 15 from Lucknow and 12 from Hyderabad,” he added.