With over 300 million K-12 students in India, for talented students from low-income and minority households there is a need for differentiated and inclusive learning opportunities. Sitare Foundation, a bootstrapped pan India educational NGO, that strives to transform the lives of underprivileged children by empowering them with education, on Friday announced the results of its 2022 annual entrance exams. The foundation has selectedabout 100 students out of the 73,000 applications received during the entrance exams conducted in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bhopal and Indore.
Majority of these selected students are from government schools and their familiesearn less than Rs 25,000 a month. For selectionin the foundation’s program, children have to undergo an extremely comprehensive evaluation process which includes an entrance exam, followed by a two-week educational camp to test children’s in-class performance, and a thorough background check.
Led by philanthropist couple Shilpa and Amit Singhal, SitareFoundationstrivesto provide high quality education for underprivileged children from impoverished background.Since its inception, the foundation has been constantly working towards identifying and uplifting talented studentsespecially from financially backward and marginalized sections of the society. Five students from the foundation’s first batch have secured multiple admissions to prestigious US universities