With 16 of its alumni having made it to the Civil Services this year and another 152 having cracked the IIT-JEE, the government-run Navodaya schools have set their aim higher, at a figure of 10,000. Tying up with coaching institutes and tutorial centres, the chain of 560-plus Jawahar Navodaya schools spread across the country plans to help that many of its Class XII students clear national- and state-level competitive entrance examinations annually.
Under the new scheme tentatively christened ‘Mission-Ascribed Career’, the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) will chart out everything from coaching to loans at concessional rates for its students.
The 16 alumni who cleared the UPSC Civil Services exam made it to the Indian Revenue Service and Indian Forest Service, apart from other allied services.
If some cleared the IIT-JEE, other students secured admission to regional engineering colleges through high scores in the AIEEE and other examinations. Still others cleared medical entrance exams to prestigious collegesSet up in the 1980s, Navodaya schools aim at providing quality modern education to talented children, predominantly from rural areas.
With Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal putting his weight behind the scheme, the aim is to get at least 10,000 students to clear either national-level or state-level entrance examinations, which will guarantee them admission to professional courses, say sources.
“Besides partnering with coaching centres essentially for a free training module for Navodaya Class XII students, progressive discussions are on with the Union Bank of India to help with funding if students do secure admission to these courses. With 20,000 students in Class XII across all Navodaya Vidyalayas, aiming at a 50 per cent admission score is quite do-able,” said a senior officer.While in 2007 the NVS signed an MoU with NGO Dakshana Foundation to provide free Internet-based IIT-JEE coaching to its students, this time they are getting into partnerships with many more such institutes, like Narayana Educational Institutes. Also keen to make a mark in the PMT exams, the NVS is in discussions with Delhi-based Akash Institute.
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