Many must have heard of the "Super 30" started by Anand Kumar in 2002 for coaching underprivileged children to get into the prestigious IIT. A total of 422 students out of 480 from Super-30 coaching institute have qualified in IIT-JEE since it was started. This year 26 of their 30 students got through the IIT-JEE Advanced. Read more of this http://bharatmahan.in/positive-news/once-again-super-30-gets-26-pass-iitjee-advance-1875
Very few must have heard of the efforts of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) in the same direction. A few senior executives of CCL coach students from poor households to crack the IIT-JEE. The scheme was launched in 2012 with 11 boys as an outreach towards poor families affected by CCL’s projects.
Under the scheme, meritorious boys belonging to project-affected families are selected after Class X for free coaching by CCL executives who are IIT pass-outs themselves.
Along with the coaching, CCL also provides the selected students formal schooling for class XI and XII in one of the best schools of Ranchi — DAV Gandhinagar. Since these students are from families from far-flung areas, CCL also provides free boarding and lodging facilities in Ranchi.
The CCL programme is called 'CCL Ke Lal' and 'CCL Ki Ladli', exclusively for girls.
Read more of this in a report by Sanjay Dutta published in the Times of India.....
