A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scheme of Central Coalfield Limited (CCL), which provides free coaching to engineering aspirants of weaker section of society, achieved remarkable success rate once again this year by helping 19 of 28 students under the scheme succeed in JEE (Main) examinations
CCL ke Lal-Siddhant Shekhar topped with 99.25 percentile whereas Vicky Nayak, a student of tribal community secured 98.65 percentile. Abhishek Kumar Sinha, who finished third, scored 97.41 and Priy Bittu Kumar from the Scheduled Castes community scored 96.78 percentile.
CCL Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD), PM Prasad congratulated the children and extended best wishes for JEE Advanced. He also congratulated the entire team of CSR including Lal Ladli's instructors and appreciated their noble work.
A six-member team is providing coaching facilities to the students of the institute and all of them are IITians. Incharge CCL KE LAL LADLI, Jitendra Kumar said that the teachers students ratio is very small which gives ample time to the teachers to understand problems of every student. "The institute selects the students on entrance exam basis and only qualified students can get this facility. The initiative was started by the company to provide opportunity for the students belonging to weaker sections of society living in command areas of the company," he added.
Established in 2012, the students of all the batches of the institute CCL KE LAL LAADLI so far have excelled and gained admission in eminent engineering colleges including IITs, NITs of the Country.
The nomination process is underway in CCL's Lal-Ladli batch 2020-22.
Three coaching centres have been set up wherein classes are conducted through video conferencing. The centres have been established in CCL command areas like Barka Sayal Area VC centre, Ramgarh District - DAV Public School, NTS Barkakana, North Karnapura Area VC Centre (Ranchi District) - Central School, Dakra and Dhori VC Area Centre (Bokaro District)- DAV Public School, Dhori.
A student who got admission in BIT Mesra in 2015, Amit Kumar said that CCL under its CSR initiatives has been providing free education along with boarding and lodging facility to meritorious male students every year since 2012-2013 under the scheme "CCL KE LAL", and to meritorious female students since the year 2016-17 under the scheme "CCL KI Laadli", for grooming them for competitive entrance examination of engineering for getting into IIT, NITs etc. These programs are running successfully. The scheme has recorded 100 per cent results in the past batches, he added.