WB Govt to fund career aptitude tests for 2,000 SC/ST students

Updated on: Thursday, January 12, 2012

As many as 2,000 scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students who have won the West Bengal government's Dr B R Ambedkar Merit Award in 2010 and 2011 will now by provided career counselling opportunities, Minister for SC/ST Welfare Upen Biswas said.
  
"It is often noticed that students who win merit awards later get lost in the blue. No one knows what becomes of them. So, we have decided to track the winners of the Ambedkar awards and identify their aptitude for different vocations," Biswas said at a press conference.
  
He said that after due diligence, his department had appointed a private agency for conducting Career Aptitude Test.
  
Once students confirm their participation, the dates and venues of the tests would be decided, he said, adding that district magistrates would be the nodal officers for conducting the tests.
  
The government would pay to the agency Rs 750 per student to conduct the tests. Besides, each student would get tiffin and Rs 100 as travelling costs, Biswas said.
  
He said once the students take the tests, they would be sent for vocational training, as per their aptitude, to institutes which will be selected after due diligence.

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