Ashish Sood announces ₹21 crore free-coaching scheme for Delhi Government school students

Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood connected Monday (December 1, 2025) said the authorities has started providing escaped coaching for competitory exams to students of Delhi Government schools. “Students were selected based connected the results of a competitory exam held connected October 30, 2025. They joined carnal classes connected November 26,” helium added.

The Minister said respective starring institutes person been empanelled successful the Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Vidya Shakti Mission for which ₹21 crore has been acceptable aside.

Terming the inaugural a “turning constituent successful Delhi’s nationalist education”, Mr. Sood said the selected students volition person schoolroom coaching, survey material, and test-preparation enactment aft schoolhouse hours and connected weekends. He added that 50 seats person been reserved successful each people for miss students. Through the scheme, students volition beryllium prepared for assorted exams, including NEET, CLAT, and CUET.

“These students are not conscionable preparing for exams; they are preparing to alteration their lives. With this mission, we are not lone offering acquisition resources but besides gathering the courage, confidence, and affectional spot to imagination bigger,” said Mr. Sood. He added that the programme is aimed astatine “bridging societal gaps” and “unlocking Delhi’s world imaginable astatine the grassroots”.

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Support for students

The Minister besides urged schoolhouse administrators to fortify intelligence enactment systems, early-identification protocols for distress, and teacher sensitisation connected mental-health issues.

The connection comes successful the aftermath of the decease by termination of a Class 10 pupil of St. Columba’s School connected November 18, 2025.

AAP govt.’s initiative

In 2018, the erstwhile Aam Aadmi Party authorities had launched a akin programme — the ‘Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana’ — for students from reserved categories and households with an yearly income beneath ₹8 lakh.

However, the programme stalled aft the backstage institutes empanelled nether the strategy said they had stopped receiving payments. In July 2025, Mr. Sood announced that the Anti-Corruption Branch had been asked to analyse an alleged ₹145-crore scam successful the scheme.