Dibrugarh, June 13: Oil India Limited (OIL) will set up the sixth centre of its Super 30 project at Nagaon in central Assam.
Oil India Super-30 is the company's corporate social responsibility project launched in association with the Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSRL) in Guwahati in 2010, enabling students to take the IIT and NIIT entrance tests. The existing centres are in Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Guwahati (Assam), Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh and Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
OIL spokesperson and chief manager Tridiv Hazarika told reporters here today that the Oil Super 30 programme was launched in 2010. Every year, 180 students are provided free residential coaching for 11 months.
Classes at the Nagaon centre will commence next month, helping underprivileged students from Nagoan and the Barak Valley get the best coaching for JEE examinations.
"We are spending Rs 1.5 lakh on each student under this project. Our main aim is to provide best coaching and help the students give their best,'' Hazarika said.
So far, 510 students have appeared for the JEE and 476 have cleared the exam.
The successful students were absorbed in various reputed institutions like IITs and NIIT.
"This year, 74 students from our centres have appeared for JEE, of whom 56 have cleared the tests,'' Sukanya Bharadwaj, senior project manager, told The Telegraph.
She said the students performed better this year. "We are providing the best faculty for our students. We select our students after a three-hour written test. The students should have passed the Class XII CBSE and Seba exams with 75 per cent marks,'' Bharadwaj added.
Libang Mize, who ranked 72nd in the JEE advanced and scored 158 marks, told reporters that he might not pursue coaching for engineering but his dreams have been fulfilled.
"We are underprivileged and to pursue engineering in the topmost institutions of India is a distant dream for us. However, under this project, we can fulfil our dreams. I am happy to have got an opportunity to learn in this coaching institute,'' Gayatri Kumbang, who ranked 73rd in JEE advance, said.
This year, 99 underprivileged students undergoing coaching under the programme cracked the JEE (advanced).
Nearly 2 lakh candidates from across the country had appeared for the examination held in May which forms the basis for admission to the IITs and the Indian School of Mines (ISM) in Jharkhand's Dhanbad.
Altogether 122 students from the five centres run by OIL had appeared for this year's JEE (advanced).
