Students of tribal hostels and schools of the State will be taken on educational tour to Gandhi memorial sites in the country this year. The Department of Tribal Welfare has sanctioned Rs 25,000 to each district level Utkrisht hostel and Rs 50,000 to each Vishisht Vidyalaya for the tour programme.
All the Assistant Commissioners and District Coordinators have been asked to include reputed industrial complexes and renowned colleges like IITs and IIMs also in the academic tour programme.
This year, Deepawali holiday will be held from October 25 to 28 in Eklavya Adarsh Residential Schools run by the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Welfare Residential and Ashram Educational Institutions Society. With this, 6 days have been added and children will be allowed to go home from October 25 to November 3 Principals have been asked to complete the half-yearly examinations of the students by October 24. Dussehra holidays in these schools have been approved from October 7th to 10. The Akansha Yojana has been introduced for Scheduled Tribe students, who have secured 60 percent or more marks in class 10 examination. Under this, two year coaching arrangment for tribal students, pursuing studies in Class 11 and 12 has been made in Jabalpur, Indore, Bhopal and Gwalior to prepare for the National Entrance Examination of JEE, NEET, AIIMS and CLAT.
Under the Akansha Yojana, arrangement has been made to provide coaching to 800 students. Coaching of 100 students for Engineering and 50 students for Medical and CLAT has been made in each coaching centre. Under this scheme, an amount of about Rs 49.22 lakh has been released to the Momentum Coaching Class of Jabalpur by the department.