1,100 make the cut for CM’s Super 50

Rifat Mohidin

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, December 25

The Department of Education today declared the selection list of students who qualified the screening test for free coaching of Chief Minister’s Super 50 programme, to be started across 10 districts in the Valley this month.

Nearly 6,000 students had appeared for the entrance of super-50 coaching in ten districts of the Valley on December 20. The coaching is offered by the Department of Education for free to students of Class XII to help them prepare for competitive exams like AIEEE, JEE, MBBS, AIIMS and AMU.

“In this course, 100 students have been selected in all ten districts of Kashmir and in Srinagar, 150 students have qualified the entrance test. A total of around 1,100 students have qualified. We have chosen special and qualified teachers from the department from medical and engineering professions to teach the students,” said Director, School Education, Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Bhat.

The official said that the programme was an initiative aimed at polishing the skills of talented students and gave them a greener pasture to compete and excel in national- level exams.

The Chief Minister’s Super 50 programme was launched by late former Chief Minster Mufti Muhammad Sayeed in 2015. Last year, 23 Kashmir students, who studied at super 50 coaching institutes, qualified the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).

This is the first such initiative taken by the government to train students for national- level exams who otherwise have to pay hefty amounts at private institutions for the coaching of competitive exams.