BY TC News Desk
Agartala, June 19, 2023: ONGC Ltd, sponsored flagship project Super 30, executed by the pan-India operational NGO – Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSRL) provides free residential mentoring for 11 months to JEE and NEET aspirants hailing from underprivileged backgrounds, said Chief Project Manager of the CSRL Biswajit Dasgupta on Monday.
The project started in 2014 at Sivasagar in Assam with 30 students and currently 535 students are studying at various ONGC projects. The project operates across five locations in Agartala, Sivasagar, Srinagar, Almora, Kangra and has assisted 97 students in succeeding in the IIT JEE Mains exam in 2023. As many as 43 students qualified in JEE Advance examination from ONGC Super 30 projects in 2023, said Dasgupta while briefing media persons at Agartala Press Club on Monday noon.
He said “ONGC super 30 Agartala Project has been started in the year of 2021. In the first batch 2021-22 we placed 4 IIT’s, 16 NIT’S and 10 state engineering (Assam, Karnataka, Uttarakhand). In the current batch 2022-23 we are expecting admission 6 IIT’s, 15 NIT’s, IISER 1, state engineering 8 students.”
“In Kashmir we have started ONGC super 30 Medical in 2019. Total 120 students benefited from the project ONGC SUPER 30 Medical till today.”
“The project also provides the beneficiaries with counselling to help them secure the best colleges and most favourable branches. The project impacts beyond ensuring the success of the students, it strengthens the family and provides support to the community at large. Over 100 students have already been successfully placed with reputed organizations thanks to the project. Such efforts have the potential to transform society and ONGC Ltd. (ONGC) plays a crucial role in shaping the future generation of various location engineers and doctors”, he told reporters.
CSRL’s CPM Dasgupta also said that the underprivileged students may contact them at 9433231799 and the new office in Agartala will start functioning from July 03 next near Don Bosco School at Nandannagar.
