Social, tribal welfare students ace IIT entrance exam

314 students have qualified for JEE (Advanced)

Telangana social and tribal welfare residential students have excelled in the IIT-JEE, the results of which were announced on Monday. As many as 179 social and 135 tribal welfare students have qualified in the Main exam.

Among those qualified this year are sons and daughters of daily-wage earners, agricultural labourers, masons, vegetable vendors and persons belonging to particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs).

“It is an outstanding achievement in itself that several students from PVTGs qualified in the exam despite their backwardness,” said Secretary R.S. Praveen Kumar.

In a press release, he thanked the State government for establishing specialised Social and Tribal Welfare Residential Centres of Excellence IIT colleges, wherein intensive IIT coaching can be provided to the meritorious SC/ST students.

“Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao believes that no poor student in Telangana should be left behind because of poverty,” he said.

With 314 students eligible for JEE (Advanced), 2018, for the first time, the credit goes to students and teachers for their hard work, he remarked.