Guwahati, June 24: Oil India Limited has opened an Oil India Super 30 centre in Dibrugarh to help meritorius students from underpriviledged families crack national and state-level engineering institutes free of cost.
Two such centres already exist in Guwahati and Jorhat.
This year, two students from the Jorhat coaching centre, Jayanta Pegu and Akshay Das, cracked the entrance to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the results for which were declared on Thursday. Pegu hails from Majuli in Jorhat district while Das is a resident of a village in Dibrugarh district.
The Dibrugarh centre will enable more students from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to avail the free coaching classes.
Fresh classes in all the three centres are scheduled to begin from July 15.
“We have started a new Oil India Super 30 coaching-cum residential-centre in Dibrugarh district this year. We will provide coaching classes together with food and lodging for the students absolutely free. The classes will begin on July 15 and continue till April. All the students will be stay at the centre itself,” said Sumona Sinha, senior manager of Oil India Super 30, Oil India Limited.
Usually the expenditure of availing coaching classes in private coaching centres in Guwahati is about Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000. There is an additional expenditure of Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 for food and lodging.
However, students have to appear in a written test for selection to the coaching classes.
“For general students, the cut off percentage is 70, for OBC it’s 65 and for SC and ST it is 60 per cent. The students must come from families having an annual income of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 50,000 or less per annum,” Sinha said.
“Our faculties are pass outs from IITs, Birla Institute of Technology and those who have an experience of coaching classes for seven years or more,” she added.
Since the inception of this initiative in 2010, 24 students from the Guwahati and Jorhat centres have made it to IIT, one to Indian Space Research Institute and several more to different national and state-level engineering institutes across the country.
