With a view to encourage more and more students, especially from rural areas, to appear for the scholarship examination, the state education
department, Nagpur division, comprising six districts, will be making scholarship examination mandatory for class seventh students.
Under this unique scheme, over one lakh students studying in the seventh standard in over 700 government-run schools would be made to appear in scholarship examination. The examination is conducted by Maharashtra State Council of Examinations (MSCE), an autonomous body of Maharashtra government.
"The scholarship exam helps students to strengthen their fundamentals of all subjects which proves helpful in understanding the subject better in the long run. Ironically, only handful of students choose to appear for examination and that too from urban areas," observed deputy director of education, Nagpur, Govind Nandede.
"We want to change this scenario by ensuring enhanced participation from rural areas as well," he told TOI while adding that the proposal came in from newly-appointed education officer for Nagpur district B H Patil. The proposal was unanimously approved at the division level.
Deliberating further, the deputy director said prior to the examination, the education department would be selecting 65 most brilliant students from fourth, seventh and eight standards each and train them for the scholarship exams as well as National Talent Search (NTS) exam conducted for the standard eighth students.
"We will be selecting five students from 13 talukas from six districts coming under department's jurisdiction. These five students, who will be best of the lot, will be selected each from fourth, seventh and eight standards," he said.
Nandede further stated that a total of 195 students will be given free training for a month and their lodging, boarding and other expenses will be borne by the department inviting sponsorships from the commercial entities. The experts from various faculties and achievers in respective subjects would be invited to guide these students during the camp to be conducted at Nagpur.
"We want that students from our areas should not lag behind their counterparts in the other developed regions. The students will be thoroughly trained by best of the teachers in the city with the aid of state-of-the-art facilities. Our efforts to spread education to remotest parts of the region will surely prove fruitful in the long run and can even produce world-renowned academicians and scientists of tomorrow," the deputy director hoped.
department, Nagpur division, comprising six districts, will be making scholarship examination mandatory for class seventh students.
Under this unique scheme, over one lakh students studying in the seventh standard in over 700 government-run schools would be made to appear in scholarship examination. The examination is conducted by Maharashtra State Council of Examinations (MSCE), an autonomous body of Maharashtra government.
"The scholarship exam helps students to strengthen their fundamentals of all subjects which proves helpful in understanding the subject better in the long run. Ironically, only handful of students choose to appear for examination and that too from urban areas," observed deputy director of education, Nagpur, Govind Nandede.
"We want to change this scenario by ensuring enhanced participation from rural areas as well," he told TOI while adding that the proposal came in from newly-appointed education officer for Nagpur district B H Patil. The proposal was unanimously approved at the division level.
Deliberating further, the deputy director said prior to the examination, the education department would be selecting 65 most brilliant students from fourth, seventh and eight standards each and train them for the scholarship exams as well as National Talent Search (NTS) exam conducted for the standard eighth students.
"We will be selecting five students from 13 talukas from six districts coming under department's jurisdiction. These five students, who will be best of the lot, will be selected each from fourth, seventh and eight standards," he said.
Nandede further stated that a total of 195 students will be given free training for a month and their lodging, boarding and other expenses will be borne by the department inviting sponsorships from the commercial entities. The experts from various faculties and achievers in respective subjects would be invited to guide these students during the camp to be conducted at Nagpur.
"We want that students from our areas should not lag behind their counterparts in the other developed regions. The students will be thoroughly trained by best of the teachers in the city with the aid of state-of-the-art facilities. Our efforts to spread education to remotest parts of the region will surely prove fruitful in the long run and can even produce world-renowned academicians and scientists of tomorrow," the deputy director hoped.