NEW DELHI: Every night after completing work, a clutch of executives of Ranchi-based Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) start their labour of love through training students from deficient households for entrance tests to their former alma mater — IITs — and different prestigious engineering institutions. On Sunday, the toil of those former IITians noticed two in their students qualify this yr’s IIT-JEE (Advanced).
Nikhil Nishchhal, son of a farmer, and Siddhant Prasad, whose father is a tailor, are both products of the ‘CCL Ke Lal’ programme run through the staterun firm as a part of its CSR (company social responsibility). A brainchild of company chairman Gopal Singh, the programme this yr noticed 11 out of the 14 selected students qualifying the JEE (Main) and two cracking the JEE (Advanced).
The scheme used to be launched in 2012 with 11 boys as an outreach in opposition to deficient households affected by CCL’s projects.
Under the scheme, meritorious boys belonging to project-affected households are selected after Class X at no cost training through CCL executives who are IIT pass-outs themselves.
Along with the training, CCL also provides the selected students formal education for sophistication XI and XII in one of the easiest schools of Ranchi — DAV Gandhinagar. Since these students are from households from far-flung areas, CCL also provides unfastened boarding and lodging facilities in Ranchi.
Inspired through the scheme’s luck, CCL has launched a identical programme for ladies below the moniker, ‘CCL Ki Ladli’.
The company expanded the ambit of those two schemes in September final yr, with coal and railway minister Piyush Goyal launching video conferencing-based interactive ‘smart categories’.
Nikhil Nishchhal, son of a farmer, and Siddhant Prasad, whose father is a tailor, are both products of the ‘CCL Ke Lal’ programme run through the staterun firm as a part of its CSR (company social responsibility). A brainchild of company chairman Gopal Singh, the programme this yr noticed 11 out of the 14 selected students qualifying the JEE (Main) and two cracking the JEE (Advanced).
The scheme used to be launched in 2012 with 11 boys as an outreach in opposition to deficient households affected by CCL’s projects.
Under the scheme, meritorious boys belonging to project-affected households are selected after Class X at no cost training through CCL executives who are IIT pass-outs themselves.
Along with the training, CCL also provides the selected students formal education for sophistication XI and XII in one of the easiest schools of Ranchi — DAV Gandhinagar. Since these students are from households from far-flung areas, CCL also provides unfastened boarding and lodging facilities in Ranchi.
Inspired through the scheme’s luck, CCL has launched a identical programme for ladies below the moniker, ‘CCL Ki Ladli’.
The company expanded the ambit of those two schemes in September final yr, with coal and railway minister Piyush Goyal launching video conferencing-based interactive ‘smart categories’.
CCL execs engineer IIT-JEE success from poor homes
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