Steps to improve the Quality of Coaching for Minority Students

New Delhi: The number of Minority students covered under 'Free Coaching and Allied Scheme' was 5522, 5532 and 4845 during 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively. The process of selection of institutes is still continuing for 2011-12 and till 28th November 2011, 90 students have been covered under the Scheme.

Giving this information in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Vincent H. Pala informed the House that according to guidelines of the scheme the institutes should have at least three years experience in imparting coaching/training.

Besides this, it should have a minimum success rate of 15% for competitive examinations for recruitment to Group 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D' services and other equivalent posts under the Central and State Governments including police/security forces, public sector undertakings, Railways, banks, insurance companies as well as autonomous bodies and in respect of training institutes 50% placement is required.

To further improve the quality of coaching the following steps were taken by the Ministry of Minority Affairs in the current year 2011-12.

(i) For qualifying for selection, under the scheme, the area of the training/coaching institute should at least be 2000 sq. ft. to accommodate 3 class rooms and 1 office room with 3 years experience and should have coached/trained 300 students per year out of which at least 20% students are from the minority communities; and

(ii) The web based monitoring system with mobile enabled photo uploading while the coaching/training classes are in progress would enable real-time monitoring by the Ministry.