GUWAHATI, April 18 � Seeking to brighten the prospects of a group of underprivileged students of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, the Oil India Limited is launching the Utkarsh Superb 30 programme for the second consecutive year. The initiative will train 30 meritorious students to succeed in the highly competitive IIT entrance examination to be held next year.
The students selected after careful screening will be provided with a ten-month residential programme inclusive of food, accommodation and coaching with the sole objective of equipping them to crack the IIT and other engineering entrance tests.
To enable the students to be well prepared, the best locally available faculty will be engaged along with all necessary course materials. It will also be monitored by Shri Abhayanand, a 1977 batch IPS officer from Bihar, who helped develop the Super 30 when it was first launched in Patna.
According to Krishamurty Singh of the Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSR&L), the executing agency for the Superb 30 initiative, the selection of students has started and a written test will be conducted on May 15 in various locations including Guwahati, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Tezpur, Bongaigaon, Silchar, Itanagar and Pasighat.
Students whose annual family income is not more than Rs 1.50 lakh are qualified to take the written test. Interested students should access www.csrl.in where they can register for free. They will fill in the form online to generate their admit cards. The admit card along with a photo identity card will have to be produced at the test centre.
Singh said that the OIL initiative is not just to support a few meritorious students overcome financial constraints to take a tough test and succeed, but to send a message to other students in their localities to become inspired.
�This initiative is designed to change lives of not just the students but for those around them, as once they graduate from top engineering colleges they will be able to transform their family for the better,� Singh noted.
He further informed that young students from Assam and the rest of the Northeast are yet to become really aware about the IIT entrance test and only a few of them appear in it. Last year there were about 4,500 candidates from the Northeast, whereas nearly 47,000 students took the test from a city like Kanpur alone.
