Port Blair, May 11: The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Gol is implementing the Central Sector Scheme of ‘Free coaching for SC and OBC students’. The objective of the scheme is to provide coaching of good quality for economically disadvantages Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) candidates to enable them appear in competitive examinations for obtaining appropriate jobs in Public/Private Sector and/or for securing admissions in reputed technical and professional higher education institutions.
Eligibility criteria for students:
-Only students belonging to SCs and OBCs, having total family income of Rs.8.00 lakh or less per annum from all sources will be eligible for benefits under the Scheme.
-SC/OBC candidates belonging to a Minority community may apply under the similar scheme(s) of Ministry Affairs, or the State Govts., as the case may be.
-The student should have a valid Aadhaar number and a bank account seeded therewith, allotted to him/her. At the time of application, if the students do not have Aadhaar number, he/she can submit his/her EID number. However, the payment shall be released only after obtaining the Aadhaar Number and shall be disbursed to the Aadhaar seeded bank account of the student only.
-Income Certificate: Income declaration of self-employed parents/guardian should be in the form of a certificate issued by a Revenue Officer not below the rank of Tehsildar. Employed parents/guardians are required obtain income certificate from their employer and submit consolidated certificate from Revenue Officer including any other additional source of income.
-For the competitive exams for which the qualifying exam is class XII, benefits under the scheme will be available to a candidate only if the candidate has passed class XII or is studying in class XII as on the date of receiving the benefit under the scheme. Student will be required to declare the marks obtained by him/her in class X in the application form. Students having less than 50% marks in their class X exam, shall not be considered under the scheme.
-Further, in case of competitive exams for which the qualifying exam is Under Graduate level only/students/candidates having completed the Under Graduate level course or studying in the final year of the Under Graduate course Student will be required to declare the marks obtained by him/her in class XII in the application form. Students having less than 50% marks in their class XII exam, shall not be considered under the scheme.
-Benefit under the Scheme can be availed by a particular student not more than twice, irrespective of the number of chances he/she may be entitled to take in a particular competitive examination and irrespective of the number of stages in the exam. The students will be required to provide a declaration that he/she has not taken benefit more than twice under the Scheme or any other similar coaching scheme run by the Central or State Government.
-The candidate shall be precluded from availing benefit under any other coaching scheme of the Centre or State Government and will be required to provide a declaration to this effect. A list of beneficiaries availing the scheme will also be uploaded on the website of the Ministry and shall be shared with Central Universities/Central Institutes to avoid possibility of the candidate availing benefits of similar coaching scheme simultaneously or more than twice.
For further details, students need to apply directly in the portal i.e., coaching.dosje.gov.in as per their choice of coaching institute and the last date for receipt of application is 31.05.2024.