The Delhi Government will provide free coaching for competitive exams to students from a family earning less than eight lac annually under Jai Bhim Mukhyamnatri Pratibha Vikas Yojna, Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said on Tuesday.
Besides free coaching to students, Delhi Government will also provide travel stipend amount of Rs 2,500 also.
Briefing media online, Gautam said that under this scheme, meritorious students belonging to SC/ST/OBC and EWS categories receive free coaching from private institutes for competitive exams such as JEE, NEET, CLAT, Civil Services, Banking, Railways, SSC among others.
“Consider the kids who are in school and dream of becoming an engineer or a doctor, or to join the air force or enter the field of law; the kids who finish graduation and aspire to give the Civil Services exam, to become an IAS or IPS officer; the kids who aspire to appear for the entrance tests of banking or the railways. In recent years, it has been observed that only the kids who have received coaching are able to succeed in such exams. The others, comparatively, have not been able to succeed in them as much,” he said
The scheme was created from the SC/ST funds to support the children belonging to the SC and ST communities. In 2018 and 2019, around 5,000 children were given the coaching they required and many of them were able to clear the engineering, medical and CLAT entrance tests.