Orissa to give specialised technical coaching to tribal students

The Orissa government today decided to provide specialised technical coaching to 100 selected tribal boys and girls every year.

This decision was taken at a meeting chaired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik here for development of tribal youths, particularly students.

"The state government will soon sign an MoU with a reputed coaching institute to prepare tribal students to become IIT, NIT engineers and medicos," a senior official of the scheduled tribe and schedule caste development department said.

The state government would bear entire cost of coaching, food and board, he said.

Though a number of tribal students so far have excelled they failed to progress due to lack of proper coaching, the official said.

The government also decided to set up hostels in selected urban pockets so that tribal students could be exposed to outside world.

"The state will ensure that tribal students can enroll in reputed public schools, central schools and other institutions," he said.