By TCN News,
New Delhi: To implement the Central Government’s scheme to provide free coaching to the students belonging to Minority communities — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis – for admission in technical and professional courses and for government job examinations, the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs has invited proposals for the year 2011-12 from institutions/centers.
The scheme is applied for the following purposes:
(1) Coaching for qualifying examinations for admission in technical/ professional courses such as engineering, law, medical, management, information technology etc. and language/aptitude examinations for seeking admission to institutes/universities.
(2) Coaching for competitive examinations for recruitment to Group ‘A’ , ‘B’ , ‘C’ and ‘D’ services and other equivalent posts under the Central and State governments including police/security forces, public sector undertakings, Railways, banks, insurance companies as well as autonomous bodies.
(3) Coaching/training for jobs in the private sector such as in airlines, shipping, fisheries, information technology (IT), business process outsourcing (BPO) and other IT enabled services, hospitality, tours and travels, maritime, food processing, retail, sales and marketing, bio-technology and other job oriented courses as per the emerging trend of employment which does not ordinarily exceed nine months.
(4) Remedial coaching for technical & professional courses at undergraduate and post graduate level to improve academic knowledge and enable the student to catch up with the rest of the class and complete the course successfully.
(5) Coaching for recruitment of constables and equivalent in police and security forces and railways (for a period of not exceeding five days).
Criteria for coaching centres
The institutions/coaching centers applying for the scheme should have 3 years experience. They should have coached/trained 300 students per year out of which at least 20% students from the minority communities. Besides, the area of the institutions should be at least 2000 sq. ft. to accommodate 3 classrooms and 1 office room.
The coaching/training institutes in the Pvt. Sector should submit their proposal in prescribed application forms with all necessary documents to the Ministry of Minority Affairs through Department of the concerned State Government/Union Territory administration dealing with minority welfare by 31st May, 2011.
While the institutes in the government sector can send their complete proposals in the prescribed application form directly to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India before 15th July, 2011.
The complete details and application forms are available on the official website of the ministry: http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/newsite/schemes/coaching/coaching.htm.