Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state spokesman Vijendra Sisodiya said that the 60 tribal community students from the most backward and lowest literacy region Jhabua and Alirajpur have opened the doors of progress for the community students by clearing the JEE (Main) 2016.
Sisodiya in a statement here on Tuesday said, “Tribal students from the most backward region that is also having minimum literacy rate have not only cracked the competition exam cleared the JEE (Main) 2016 but have also set records that would certainly pave way for the progress of tribal community students in future.”
Sisodiya further said that it is due to the state government efforts that the tribal students have created this wonder. 38 tribal students from Jhabua and 22 from Alirajpur cleared the cleared the JEE (Main) 2016 exams. The average literacy per cent in Jhabua is 43.30 while it is 36.10 in Alirajpur, he added.
He said that there are nine girls in the total 38 tribal students from Jhabua who have excelled in the JEE (Main) 2016 exam. All these students used to study in the schools run by the Tribal Welfare Department and in order to encourage them they were provided special facilities by the BJP government of the state led chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
The senior BJP leader of the state said that these students by excelling in tough competition exam like JEE (Main) 2016 exam have proved that poverty and scarcity could not become hurdles in the way of progress.