To mark its silver jubilee year, the Nancy Convent Education and Social Welfare Society will provide education and boarding facilities free of cost to 120 children from scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, economically poor background and on merit basis. Making this announcement, the society’s managing director IP Singh said that the entrance process for this purpose will be held on May 25 at Nancy Convent, Jyolikot. He said that during the 25 years of its existence, the school has provided free of cost education to a considerable number of students including 35 hearing and speech impaired students. Meritorious children from poor families are also provided education by the school. The society is also playing a role in facilitating skill development as part of which it had facilitated training in hotel management and job placements to select trainees during the previous year. In addition to providing education, the society is also fulfilling its social obligations, averred Singh.