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GAIL to increase number for free coaching to 100 students
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| merisarkar news service June 27, 2011 |
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CMD BC Tripathi with the selected students
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GAIL (India) Limited, has, this year, helped 51 underprivileged students to make it through the IIT/JEE, ISRO, UPTU and AIEEE entrance examinations. These successful students were felicitated by BC Tripathi, Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL in a function held in Noida on Monday. R D Goyal, Director (Projects) and SL Raina, Director (HR), GAIL along with senior officials of GAIL were present on the occasion.
These 51 students are the heart-warming success results of GAIL’s special CSR programme, GAIL UTKARSH, being run at Kanpur. Under this programme, 60 students from the economically backward sections were provided free board, lodge. Training and expert coaching for 10 months under the mentorship of Abhayanand for the IIT/JEE entrance exams etc.
Speaking on the occasion, GAIL CMD, BC Tripathi announced that GAIL has this year increased the intake for the Utkarsh programme to 100 students.
Most of the successful candidates come from villages and small towns, some with large families, at times striving to make ends meet. Earning members/ parents range from of health worker, auto driver to petty business (small flour mill, petty farmer or grocery shop owner), tuition teacher, and factory worker (detail attached).
GAIL’s Utkarsh programme is unique in many ways. It is conducted under the mentorship of Abayanand, and only students belonging to families with an annual income of less than Rs 1.25 lakh are eligible for a place in the programme.
Apart from this, it is possibly the only programme which has allocated 50 per cent of the available seats under its programme for SC/ST/OBC and physically handicapped students.
Under this flagship programme, GAIL, in association with Center for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSRL), pioneered the initiative of sponsoring underprivileged students for IIT/ Engineering Entrance of National and State levels institutions.
Students were selected through written examination conducted at Kanpur, Lucknow, Etawah, Allahabad, Agra, and Gwalior centres. A total of 1546 students from different centres had appeared this year in the examination for selection of this coveted GAIL Utkarsh.
GAIL had started this programme as part of its Educational programmes under the CSR umbrella. Last year 3 students had entered the IIT, and 14 others had qualified for the NIT(8) and other institutions.
GAIL allocates 2% of its previous year Profit After Tax (PAT) for implementing useful programmes for welfare of under-privileged, socially/economically deprived segment of society within its specified 7 thrust areas such as environment protection/ horticulture, health care and medical, community development, education and literacy enhancement, infrastructure development, community development, drinking water and sanitation.
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