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All 32 Students Of RailTel-Akansha Super 30 Project Qualify For JEE Mains 2023
Arun Kumar Das
May 14, 2023, 02:36 PM | Updated 02:35 PM IST
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It was a proud moment for RailTel when all 32 students of its CSR project Akansha Super 30 Dehradun, Uttarakhand made it to JEE Mains.
2023 bringing them one step closer to securing admission to premiere league engineering colleges like IIT, NIT and other government engineering colleges of India.
RailTel, a railways PSU, in association with Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSRL), has established a Super 30 Centre at Dehradun in 2015.
The coaching centre provides free coaching, boarding and lodging to about 30 underprivileged but talented students from Uttarakhand for 11 months for admission examinations of reputed engineering colleges like IIT, NIT and state engineering colleges.
The 30 students chosen for dedicated coaching are selected on the basis of an examination which tests their knowledge, mental ability and career aspirations.
This year, two additional students were selected for coaching. Thus a total of 32 students were coached during the year 2022-2023.
After completing their engineering graduation, many students get placements in various companies of repute.
Besides the Super 30 project, the company is also undertaking other CSR initiatives in different sectors across the country.
RailTel is one of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure and ICT Solutions and Services providers in the country, owning a Pan-India optic fibre network covering several towns and cities and rural areas of the country.
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Arun Kumar Das is a senior journalist covering railways. He can be contacted at akdas2005@gmail.com.
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