FORMER VICE-CHANCELLOR of Deen Dayal Upadhyay University (Gorakhpur), Prof BM Shukla said there was enormous potential in rural students and the need of the hour was to tap this potential for the development of the country.
He was addressing the inaugural function of one-month free preparatory coaching camp for students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti for Joint Engineering Examination-2007 at Institute of Technology (IT) in Banaras Hindu University here on Wednesday.
A voluntary organisation, All India Talent Promotion Campaign has organised this coaching camp from October 9 to November 5. Prof Shukla lauded the efforts of organisation in extending support to poor but talented rural students to get them into mainstream of the society.
Presiding over the inaugural function, the vice-chancellor of BHU Prof Panjab Singh promised all sorts of efforts for a smooth conduct of the coaching camp.
Director of IT-BHU, Prof SN Upadhyay also addressed the inaugural function.
Secretary of All India Talent Promotion Campaign and an alumni of IT-BHU, Shashank Chaturvedi conducted the programme whereas Dr Vachaspati Tripathi proposed vote of thanks.
As many as 100 students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti were selected through a Talent Search Examination from its eight regions to participate in month-long free coaching class for IIT-JEE examination 2007 in BHU.
{{/usCountry}}As many as 100 students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti were selected through a Talent Search Examination from its eight regions to participate in month-long free coaching class for IIT-JEE examination 2007 in BHU.
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