As many as 40 employees of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) from different departments have volunteered to become ‘Mentors’ to tribal and meritorious students belonging to BPl/ST/SC/OBC categories from Model Steel Villages residing in ‘Bhilai Ispat Gyanoday Chhatravas’.
Under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Department’s ‘Gyandeep Mentorship Scheme’, a BSP employee volunteers to be a Mentor — a friend, philosopher and guide — of a student in ‘Gyanoday Chhatravas’, a BSP Press release informed here on Tuesday.
BSP introduced ‘Tribal Boys’ Education Scheme in the year 2002. Under the scheme, 20 tribal students from far-flung areas of Rajhara and Rowghat Mines area are admitted in Class VI in BSP Higher Secondary School, Rajhara.
They are provided educational facilities including lodging and boarding free of cost, at Rajhara (up to Class X) and at Bhilai (Class 11 &12) in Bhilai Vidyalaya, Sector-2. They are also provided post-Class XII-scholarship of Rs 2,000/- per month if admitted in any Government college for higher studies.