"Talks are in final stage with Super 30 to assist meritorious students studying in government schools in Uttar Pradesh so that they can crack IIT entrance examination," a state government official said in Lucknow.
For selection of students for Super 30, the education department has proposed conducting examinations at 11 centres, including Lucknow, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Jhansi, Kanpur, Agra, Moradabad and Azamgarh, he told news agency PTI.
Founder of Super 30 Anand Kumar has proposed "teachers training programme" for teachers of government schools for their skill development so that they could impart best education to students to crack competitive examinations.
Super 30 will not take any honorarium from the state government for the purpose, the official said.
The move was initiated by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in January last year when some underprivileged meritorious boys from the state secured admission in IITs and they conveyed the hardships that they endured to him.
Acting on the Mr Yadav's initiative, state government made Special Secretary to the Chief Minister Muthukumar Swami the nodal officer to execute the plan while the education department appointed Deputy Director Vikas Srivastava in this connection.
Mr Srivastava went to Patna and held talks with Mr Kumar.
Super 30 has been providing free coaching classes to IIT aspirants from Bihar for the past 11 years. It hunts for 30 meritorious talents from the economically backward sections of the society and trains them for the IIT-JEE.
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