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As galore as 153 tribal students crossed Tamil Nadu have secured admissions to the country’s premier higher acquisition institutions during the 2025-2026 world year, and the State authorities is moving towards tripling this fig successful the coming years, said S. Annadurai, Director, Tribal Welfare Department, successful Erode recently.
Addressing a parent-student counselling and vocation guidance programme organised by the section at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology at Sathyamangalam, Mr. Annadurai reaffirmed the government’s committedness to improving entree to higher acquisition for tribal students. He said the department’s people for 2026 is to guarantee that at slightest 40% of tribal students summation admittance to starring nationalist institutions, portion bringing the higher acquisition dropout complaint down to zero.
Explaining the benefits of various government assistance and payment schemes, the Director addressed parents’ concerns and sought to dispel apprehensions related to higher education, reiterating that the section would proceed to enactment tribal students successful achieving their afloat potential.
Encouraged by the occurrence of erstwhile years, the section has launched a new inaugural aimed astatine expanding admissions threefold. As portion of its archetypal phase, parent-student counselling and vocation guidance programmes were conducted astatine the block level successful 36 tribal schools crossed the State.
The programmes were led by teams of educationists and nonrecreational vocation counsellors, providing personalised guidance to parents connected higher acquisition pathways. The State was divided into 14 zones for implementation, with each programme conducted nether the supervision of senior territory officials, including the District Collector, Director of Tribal Welfare, District Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Officer, Deputy Director, and different elder officials.
Officials said nearly 99% of the beneficiaries are first-generation graduates, with parents mostly employed as daily-wage labourers. Several students beryllium to families rehabilitated from bonded labour, portion others travel from single-parent households. Social attitudes and deficiency of awareness, including instances of early marriage, were identified arsenic cardinal challenges to higher education.
Expert teams addressed parents’ queries, resolved documentation-related issues, and highlighted disposable payment schemes. A notable diagnostic of the programme was the collective pledge by parents to widen afloat enactment to their children’s acquisition pursuits.
