Social Welfare Minister Koppula Eshwar on Tuesday said Telangana social and tribal welfare residential institutions stand out as role model institutions in the country as no government education institute has produced so many rank holders to get into the medicine through NEET this year.
“It is a remarkable achievement by any standard with the number of our students entering into the medical stream increasing from 12 in 2012 to 150 in 2019,” he said, and said this was made possible with the vision of the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in fulfilling the dreams of poor students under the KG-PG Mission.
He congratulated Secretary R.S Praveen Kumar and the faculty for bringing about the much needed transformation through imparting long-term NEET and IIT coaching and quality education on par with the corporate institutions.
The Minister wanted Dr. Kumar to build top institutions in every district on the model of social welfare IIT Golwidoddi and tribal welfare IIT Study Centre, Rajendra Nagar and assured the government would support medical and engineering students in pursuing their studies successfully.
He also felicitated Shresta of social welfare residential educational society for having secured all India first rank in Indian Maritime University (Chennai) entrance exam and other toppers in NEET.
Students of social welfare institutions students secured all India 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 15th and 17th ranks in an entrance exam conducted by the Indian Maritime Central University. Out of 100 seats available in BBA undergraduate program, social welfare students secured 51 seats and this has been a ‘golden lettered moment’ in the history of TSWREIS, said the secretary.
