By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs is offering free coaching to candidates from minority communities with an aim to enhance their skills to make them employable in IT industries, services and business sectors, both private and public. The last date for registration for the coaching is March 8.
Christened as Free Coaching and Allied Assistance for candidates belonging to the minority communities, the scheme is aimed that educated youth of minority communities are not deprived of the professional skills demanded by the emerging market at domestic as well as international levels. The selected candidates will be coached for jobs in the private sector such as in airlines, shipping, fisheries, information technology (IT), business process outsourcing (BPO) and other IT enabled services.
The candidate must be from any of constitutional Minority Category: Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Parsee and Buddhist.
Eligibility criteria for candidates
1. Candidates must have secured the requisite percentage of marks in the qualifying examination prescribed for admission into the desired courses/recruitment examinations.
2. Only candidates belonging to the minority communities, having total family income from all sources not exceeding Rs.2.50 lakh per annum, will be eligible under the scheme.
3. Benefits of coaching/training under the scheme can be availed by a particular student once only, irrespective of the number of chances he/she may be entitled to in a particular competitive examination.
4. In case, where the examination is conducted in two stages i.e. preliminary and main, the candidates will be allowed to take coaching of the preliminary as well as the main examination, but coaching for the main examination will be allowed only to those who have qualified in the preliminary examination for the year concerned.
5. Students covered under the scheme shall have to attend all classes. In the event of any student remaining absent for more than 15 days, without any valid reason or leaving the coaching/training midway, the entire expenditure incurred on the candidate will be recovered from the institute concerned.
6. 30% of the numbers sanctioned for coaching/training is earmarked for girl students/candidates. It may be transferred to boy students only in case girl students meeting the standards for coaching/training are not available.
Schedule
| Application Form Opening | Feb 15, 2010 |
| Last Date Of Submission Of Application Form | Mar 08, 2010 |
| Selection Of The Candidates | March 01, 2010 To March 12, 2010 |
| Declaration Of The Candidates List | March 16, 2010 |
| Commencement Of The Training Programme | March 22, 2010 |
| End Of The Training Programme | August 22, 2010 |
Registration form can be downloaded from:
http://acts.cdac.in/minority/Applicaiton_form.pdf