Bhilai Steel Plant welcomed a new batch of meritorious students selected from Model Steel Villages under the Honhar Scheme to ‘Bhilai Ispat Gyanodaya Chatravas’ for their boarding facilities.
A function was held at the Gyanodaya Chatravas in Sector 4 to welcome the new batch of students, a BSP press release issued here stated. SK Saha, Executive Director (Mines) was the chief guest on the occasion.
Sharing the dais were Ranjana Muley, General Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Department RK Gopal, DGM (CSR) and Sourav Sinha, DGM (Education).
AC Shrivastava, DGM (CSR), Vijay Mairal, DGM (PR) and other officers and members of the Education Dept and CSR Dept were present.
Also present were parents or guardians of some of the inducted students.
At the beginning of each new academic session, BSP brings 10 meritorious students inducted from Model Steel Villages under the Honhar Scheme and 20 tribal children from Rajhara Hostel to Gyanodaya Chatravas in Bhilai. All these students are provided free school education and residential facility.
Students inducted by BSP under the Honhar Scheme are selected from those who secure more than 80% marks in 10th Board Exams.
These school children selected from Model Steel Villages are provided free education in Class 11 & 12 and free residential facility by BSP at the Gyanodaya Chatravas.
The tribal students adopted by BSP each year for their schooling in BSP School, Rajhara and accommodation in Rajhara Hostel who have passed Class 10 Exam are also brought to Bhilai for their Class 11 and 12 schooling in NCERT School, Sector 6 and Bhilai Vidyalaya, Sector 2.
With this, induction of new batch of students under Honhar Scheme and from Rajhara Hostel, the total strength of students in Gyanodaya Chatravas for academic session 2015-16 will be 57.