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Andhra Pradesh Law and Minority Welfare Minister N. M. D. Farooq distributed assemblage allotment certificates to 250 students selected nether the Taalim-e-Hunar Talent Test successful Vijayawada connected Sunday.
Speaking astatine the programme, Mr. Farooq said the inaugural marked an important measurement towards acquisition empowerment of number communities. Implemented by the A.P. Waqf Board, the strategy volition supply escaped residential acquisition to 250 meritorious number students astatine an estimated outgo of astir ₹6 crore.
Students who secured astatine slightest 450 marks successful Class X were selected done a peculiar entranceway trial and volition beryllium admitted to reputed institutions that connection coaching for IIT and aesculapian entranceway examinations.
Mr. Farooq said the strategy was intended to guarantee that economically disadvantaged number students, peculiarly girls, did not discontinue their acquisition due to the fact that of fiscal constraints. He commended the Waqf Board for backing the programme done its ain resources and assured afloat authorities enactment for its implementation.
A.P. Waqf Board Chairman Sheikh Abdul Aziz said 250 students were selected from 6,605 candidates who appeared for the trial retired of astir 7,400 applicants. He said residential acquisition would supply a competitory world situation for students who whitethorn not person capable enactment astatine home.
Although 33% preservation was earmarked for girls, they accounted for 41% of the selected candidates, which Mr. Aziz described arsenic a notable achievement. The students volition beryllium enrolled astatine the Chaitanya Gosala field successful Vijayawada.
Mr. Aziz said the strategy was being implemented nether the P4 (Public-Private-People Partnership) exemplary successful enactment with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s imaginativeness of ensuring that poorness does not go a obstruction to education.
Vijayawada MP Kesineni Sivanath (Chinni) said the programme would assistance number students summation entree to prime acquisition and competitory coaching. He besides suggested mounting up accomplishment improvement centres successful Shadi Khanas to heighten employment opportunities for number youth.
MLC Zakia Khanam, Minority Affairs Advisor Sharif Mohammad, MLAs Gadde Ramamohan and Mohammad Nazeer Ahmed, Urdu Academy Chairman Mohammad Farooq Shibli, Vijayawada DCP Sharina Begum and School Education Commissioner A. Tameem Ansaria besides praised the strategy and urged students to marque the champion usage of the opportunity.
The speakers underscored the relation of acquisition successful the societal and economical advancement of number communities and expressed assurance that the beneficiaries would excel successful their chosen fields. The Waqf Board said it plans to grow its acquisition initiatives by mobilising further resources successful the coming years.
