Bengaluru: To enhance the Competitive Examination ability of students and placing a sizeable number of Kannadigas in the Administrative and public domain Services of the governments, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked between the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education (DCTE) and leading online learning platform Unacademy, on Thursday.
Speaking on the occasion, DyCM, Dr.C.N.Ashwathnarayana, and Minister for Higher Education told, this pact is expected to better prepare students to benefit from the opportunities of around 3 lakh Jobs every year for which several government departments are issuing notifications.
The aspiration behind this program is to hone the intellect, ability, and talent of Kannadiga students through expert training so that their potential is identified at the National/State level in the Administrative Services of the Central and State Governments and Services like Banking, Group, etc, he explained.
Under this MoU, Coaching for Competitive Examinations will be given to 1500 students every year for a period of 03 years (2021-2024) and 4500 students will be trained. Students will be selected for this training program based on their performance in the Online examination conducted twice a year with a 06 months gap in between, Narayana told.
Scholarships will be given to students selected and will also be given a free subscription to Unacademy Plus. The potential beneficiaries of this program are the Final Year or pre-Final students of UG/PG of Government First Grade Colleges, Polytechnics, Engineering Colleges, and Universities.
MoU signed by P.Pradeep, Commissioner, DCTE, and Vivek Sinha, chief operating officer of Unacademy was exchanged between the government and the company.
Kumar Nayak, ACS to higher education and othre dignitaries were present on the occasion.
