NEW DELHI: Tabassum Manzoor, 18, from Adampora in Kashmir's Kupwara district, will always take into account the day she gained a decision from IndianOil, asking her to join the company's 'Vidushi' programme at Noida for an all-paid 11-month extensive coaching on cracking the joint front examination (JEE).
That call is proving to be life-changing for Tabassum, who is amongst those that cracked the JEE Mains examination this 12 months, the result of that have been announced closing week.
"I love computers and dreamt of becoming a software engineer. But I had no hope of turning it into reality as my family couldn't afford coaching. There's hardly any information or scope (on career building) in Kashmir. Vidushi has given me a chance to step out of Kashmir and pursue my dream by doing B. Tech; I have gained friends from different states… it's opened up a new world," she told TOI.
Tabassum is one of the 252 successful aspirants, together with 64 women, from deficient houses in J&Ok, Manipur, Assam, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and UP tutored underneath CSR projects of cash-rich energy firms - IndianOil's 'Vidushi', Central Coalfields Ltd's 'CCL Ke Lal and Ladli', GAIL's 'Utkarsh Super 100' and ONGC's 'Super 30'.
But Involvement of company executives in mentoring units Vidushi and CCL Ke Lal and Ladli programmes apart. "Our programme is for girls only and hands-on. Women alumni of IITs head the batches at Noida and Bhubaneswar Vidushi centres, respectively. CGM Rashmi Govil in Noida and and information systems officer Debjani Panda in Bhubaneswar regularly give the girls pep talk. Chairman (Sanjiv Singh) too has visited to motivate them," IndianOil director (HR) Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra said.
CCL chairman Gopal Singh said a seize of CCL executives based totally at Ranchi, themselves alumni of the premier establishments, coach the aspirants selected from project-affected households. CCL additionally supplies the chosen scholars formal education for sophistication XI and XII.
The efforts are yielding wealthy dividend. Fortysix of the 56 Vidushi women cracked JEE this 12 months. "For example, the Bhubaneswar batch has seven OBC, 11 SC and 12 ST girls," Mohapatra said. All the 100 aspirants, together with 14 women at GAIL's Kanpur Utkarsh centre sailed via. Its Dwarahat and Srinagar centres in Uttarakhand saw 24 and 26 scholars out of a batch of 30 each and every cleared JEE. Four Ladlis and eight Ladlas too made the grade as did 28 out of 30 of ONGC's Super 30 programme.
IndianOil introduced the Vidushi initiative closing 12 months to assist women from financially weaker sections acquire admission into prestigious engineering institutes. IndianOil pays all the value of the 11-month coaching, learn about subject material, food, and accommodation. Each pupil is supplied with medical health insurance of Rs 1 lakh for 12 months to cover exigencies. Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership, an training NGO operates the programme. Thirty women from approximately 3,000 candidates are selected for each and every Vidushi centre on merit-cum-means foundation via a written test and personal interview. Vidushi has an preliminary target of helping 300 women in five years.
CCL introduced the Lal and Ladli schemes in 2012 as an outreach towards deficient households suffering from coal mining. CCL selects meritorious girls and boys from project-affected households after Class X totally free coaching via CCL executives who themselves have passed out from IITs. Along with the coaching, CCL additionally supplies the chosen scholars formal education for sophistication XI and XII in some of the highest colleges of Ranchi - DAV Gandhinagar. Since these scholars are from households from far-flung spaces, CCL additionally supplies unfastened boarding and lodging amenities in Ranchi.
ONGC bankrolls the programme from its CSR fund.
That call is proving to be life-changing for Tabassum, who is amongst those that cracked the JEE Mains examination this 12 months, the result of that have been announced closing week.
"I love computers and dreamt of becoming a software engineer. But I had no hope of turning it into reality as my family couldn't afford coaching. There's hardly any information or scope (on career building) in Kashmir. Vidushi has given me a chance to step out of Kashmir and pursue my dream by doing B. Tech; I have gained friends from different states… it's opened up a new world," she told TOI.
Tabassum is one of the 252 successful aspirants, together with 64 women, from deficient houses in J&Ok, Manipur, Assam, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and UP tutored underneath CSR projects of cash-rich energy firms - IndianOil's 'Vidushi', Central Coalfields Ltd's 'CCL Ke Lal and Ladli', GAIL's 'Utkarsh Super 100' and ONGC's 'Super 30'.
But Involvement of company executives in mentoring units Vidushi and CCL Ke Lal and Ladli programmes apart. "Our programme is for girls only and hands-on. Women alumni of IITs head the batches at Noida and Bhubaneswar Vidushi centres, respectively. CGM Rashmi Govil in Noida and and information systems officer Debjani Panda in Bhubaneswar regularly give the girls pep talk. Chairman (Sanjiv Singh) too has visited to motivate them," IndianOil director (HR) Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra said.
CCL chairman Gopal Singh said a seize of CCL executives based totally at Ranchi, themselves alumni of the premier establishments, coach the aspirants selected from project-affected households. CCL additionally supplies the chosen scholars formal education for sophistication XI and XII.
The efforts are yielding wealthy dividend. Fortysix of the 56 Vidushi women cracked JEE this 12 months. "For example, the Bhubaneswar batch has seven OBC, 11 SC and 12 ST girls," Mohapatra said. All the 100 aspirants, together with 14 women at GAIL's Kanpur Utkarsh centre sailed via. Its Dwarahat and Srinagar centres in Uttarakhand saw 24 and 26 scholars out of a batch of 30 each and every cleared JEE. Four Ladlis and eight Ladlas too made the grade as did 28 out of 30 of ONGC's Super 30 programme.
IndianOil introduced the Vidushi initiative closing 12 months to assist women from financially weaker sections acquire admission into prestigious engineering institutes. IndianOil pays all the value of the 11-month coaching, learn about subject material, food, and accommodation. Each pupil is supplied with medical health insurance of Rs 1 lakh for 12 months to cover exigencies. Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership, an training NGO operates the programme. Thirty women from approximately 3,000 candidates are selected for each and every Vidushi centre on merit-cum-means foundation via a written test and personal interview. Vidushi has an preliminary target of helping 300 women in five years.
CCL introduced the Lal and Ladli schemes in 2012 as an outreach towards deficient households suffering from coal mining. CCL selects meritorious girls and boys from project-affected households after Class X totally free coaching via CCL executives who themselves have passed out from IITs. Along with the coaching, CCL additionally supplies the chosen scholars formal education for sophistication XI and XII in some of the highest colleges of Ranchi - DAV Gandhinagar. Since these scholars are from households from far-flung spaces, CCL additionally supplies unfastened boarding and lodging amenities in Ranchi.
ONGC bankrolls the programme from its CSR fund.
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