The Manohar Lal Khattar Government in Haryana will be conducting a written examination on June 10 under the ‘Super 100’ initiative to provide free coaching for JEE, NEET and boarding facility to meritorious students of government schools.
The students who have attained more than 80 percent marks in class 10th would be eligible to participate in the entrance test. The last date of registration students for this programme is May 31.
Selected students in examination will be provided free of cost training for NEET, IIT and JEE by the State Government, a spokesman of the Department said.
He said that the expenses of boarding and lodging would also be borne by the government. All the district education officers have been directed by the Directorate of School Education to appoint the district Science expert and district Math expert in their respective districts as the nodal officer of the “Super-100” programme.
The Directorate has also directed to establish contact with Parents, School Heads and students who secured more than 80 per cent marks in Class X to encourage them to come for “Super-100” programme, the spokesman said.
More than 100 students will be enrolled under the programme to undergo the complete two years free of cost training for medical and engineering competitive entrance exams. Equal number of girls and boys are proposed to be enrolled under the scheme.
Notably, a total of 3.64 lakh candidates had appeared out of which 57.39 percent passed in the Haryana Board Class 10 examination. The pass percentage has gone up by six points compared to last year’s 51.15 percent.
However, the poor show continued as 1.4 lakh students failed the exams, while another 18,000 got compartments in class X in the state.