Three Govt. school students of Virudhunagar district reap rich through special coaching programmes
Three students from government schools in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district have secured admissions to premier institutions like IIT Madras and NIT Haryana. Their success is attributed to state-sponsored residential coaching programs like 'Thisai' and 'VETRI' that provide intensive training for competitive entrance exams.
Why it matters
It highlights the impact of targeted government educational interventions in bridging the opportunity gap for students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
M. Logesh, a student of Municipal Higher Secondary School in Srivilliputtur, knows that his widowed mother is toiling hard to bring up three children.
Working in a brick kiln, she has managed to make her daughter a graduate and elder son an electrician with the available wherewithal.
Realising that education alone would help his family come up in life, Logesh had put in his maximum efforts. He secured good marks that could fetch him an engineering seat in Government college.
With dreams in him, Logesh grabbed with both hands the opportunity given by Tamil Nadu Government by way of introducing Vibrant Education Targeting Reputed Institution (VETRI) Palligal scheme that gave him weekend coaching to prepare students for facing entrance exams for admission in premier educational institutions like IIT and for NEET.
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