FREE
COACHING &
ALLIED SCHEME FOR THE CANDIDATES BELONGING TO MINORITY COMMUNITIES
(Effective
from 17.7.2007)
1.1 The scheme
aims to empower the minority
communities by assisting the economically weaker sections of students
among them
through coaching institutions for enhancing their skills and
capabilities to
make them employable in industries, services and business sectors in
addition
to the government sector. It has built-in resilience to adapt to the
market
dynamics on a continuous basis so that the target groups are not
deprived of
the professional acumen demanded by the changing/emerging market needs
and
opportunities for employment at domestic as well as international
levels.
1.2 Separate schemes for providing coaching
to students
belonging to scheduled caste, minority communities and backward classes
were
being implemented from 6th Five Year Plan.
These separate schemes were amalgamated with effect from
September, 2001 into a combined Scheme of Coaching and Allied
Assistance for
Weaker Sections including Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes and
Minorities. After creation of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, a new
scheme
called Free Coaching & Allied Scheme for candidates belonging to
minority
communities has been formulated keeping in view the emerging trends of
employment in the era of economic reforms, liberalization and
globalization.
The
objectives of the scheme are to assist
students belonging to minority communities by way of special coaching
for the
following:-
a)
Qualifying
examinations for admission in technical/professional courses such as
engineering, law, medical, management, information technology etc. and
language/aptitude
examinations for seeking admission in foreign universities.
b)
Competitive
examinations for recruitment to Group A, B, C and D services
and other
equivalent posts under the Central and State governments including
police/security forces, public sector undertakings, Railways, banks,
insurance
companies as well as autonomous bodies; and
c)
Coaching
for jobs in
the private sector such as in airlines, shipping, information
technology
(IT), business process outsourcing
(BPO) and other IT enabled services,
hospitality, tours and travels, maritime, food processing, retail,
sales &
marketing, bio-technology and other job oriented courses as per the
emerging
trend of employment.
d)
Remedial
coaching at
undergraduate and post graduate level to improve the academic knowledge
and
enable the student to catch up with the rest of the class and complete
the
course successfully.
3.
IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES
AND ELIGIBILITY
The
following types of organizations will be eligible for running the
coaching programmes under this scheme:-
i)
All
institutes in the Government sector including universities and
autonomous
bodies engaged in the coaching activities.
ii)
All
institutes in the Government sector including universities and
autonomous
bodies engaged in imparting remedial coaching to the students belonging
to
minority communities.
iii)
University/colleges
in private sector engaged in coaching activities
including deemed universities.
iv)
Institutes
in the private sector engaged in coaching activities/job oriented
coaching/training for placement in private sectors, which is a trust,
company,
partnership firm, or society registered under relevant law
and of relevant industry, bodies or
institutes, preferably
identified by them.
The
coaching institutes should fulfil the following conditions :
a) The institutes should have
required number
of well qualified faculty members either on its pay roll or on part
time
basis.
b) The institutes should have
necessary
infrastructure such as premises, library, requisite equipment etc. to
run the
coaching classes/training centers. This condition will not apply for
field
recruitment of constables and equivalent in the police/security forces
and
railways.
c) The institutes should have
experience of
imparting coaching for a period not less than three years provided that
those
functioning for less than three years may be considered only if their
success
rates are significantly high.
d) Coaching institutes should
have a minimum
success rate of 15%. A three year
moving average could be considered for this purpose. Coaching
institutes having
better success rate will be given priority.
e) Coaching institutes which
are imparting
coaching for entrance examinations and whose students have been able to
obtain
admission in reputed colleges/institutes, will be given priority under
this
category.
f) Coaching for industry
specific
courses/jobs will be encouraged for private sector jobs.
i) The Ministry of
Minority Affairs will
advertise the details of the scheme and invite proposals from the
coaching/training institutes by 30th April of every year.
ii) While the institutes in
government sector
can send proposals in the prescribed proforma directly to the Ministry
of
Minority Affairs, the organizations in the private sector including
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should submit their proposals
through the
State government/UT administration concerned.
iii) The State governments/UT
administrations
will conduct necessary inspection of the coaching institute with
respect to
eligibility and feasibility of the
project proposal and forward the proposal with specific recommendations
to the
Ministry of Minority Affairs.
iv) The proposals received from
institutes will
be scrutinized, processed in the Ministry and placed before a Committee
consisting of the following members, for selection of the institutes
for
funding:-
a)
Secretary(Minority Affairs)
Chairperson
b)
Financial Advisor (Minority
Affairs)
Member
c)
Joint Secretary (Minority
Affairs)
Member
d)
Representative from the
Ministry of HRD
Member
e)
Representative from the
Ministry of Labour
Member
f)
Representative from UGC
Member
g)
Director/Deputy Secretary,
Minority Affairs
Convener
v) The Committee may, for a specific period
not
exceeding one financial year, co-opt any other professional as
member(s), as
and when required.
5. ELIGIBILITY
CRITERIA FOR CANDIDATES/ STUDENTS
i) Candidates must have
secured the requisite
percentage of marks in the qualifying examination prescribed for
admission into
the desired courses/recruitment examinations.
ii) Only candidates belonging to
the minority
communities having total family income from all sources not exceeding
Rs.2.50
lakh per annum will be eligible under the scheme.
iii) Benefits of coaching under the
scheme can be
availed by a particular student once only, irrespective of the number
of
chances; he/she may be entitled to in a particular competitive
examination. The
coaching institution will be required to take an affidavit from the
student
that they have not taken any benefit under this scheme.
iv) In case, where the examination is
conducted
in two stages i.e. preliminary and main, the candidates will be allowed
to take
coaching of the preliminary as well as the main examination, but
coaching for
the main examination will be allowed only to those who have qualified
the
preliminary examination for the year/examination concerned.
v)
Students
covered under the scheme shall have to attend all classes.
In the event of any student remaining absent
for more than 15 days, without any valid reason or leaving the coaching
midway,
the entire expenditure incurred on the candidate will be recovered from
the
institute concerned.
(i)
100
% financial assistance will be provided to the selected
coaching/training
institutes and the institutes imparting remedial tuition.
(ii)
Stipend
will be given by the Ministry for maintenance of the students. The
details of
the rates of financial assistance are given below:-
|
Sl. No. |
Type of
Coaching/ remedial coaching |
Coaching/
remedial coaching fee |
Amount of
Stipend |
|
1. |
Group A
Services |
As fixed by
the institute, subject to a maximum ceiling of Rs. 20000/- |
Rs.1500
/-for outstation candidates, Rs. 750/-for local Candidates |
|
2. |
Group B
Services |
As fixed by
the institute, subject to a maximum ceiling of Rs. 15,000/-. |
-Do- |
|
3. |
Group C
Services |
As fixed by
the institute, subject to a maximum ceiling of Rs. 10,000/-. |
-Do- |
|
4. |
Entrance
examination for technical/ professional courses |
As fixed by
the institute, subject to a maximum ceiling of Rs. 20000/- |
Rs.1500
/-for outstation candidates, Rs. 750/-for local Candidates |
|
5. |
Coaching
for jobs in private sectors |
As fixed by
the institute, subject to a maximum ceiling of Rs. 20,000/-. |
-Do- |
|
6. |
Remedial
coaching/tuition |
As charged
by the institutes for the extra tuition classes. |
Not
Applicable |
|
7. |
Coaching
for recruitment of constables and equivalent in police/security forces
and railways. (For a period not exceeding five days) |
At nominal
rates, as proposed by the institute and fixed by the committee |
Rs.100
/-for outstation candidates, Rs. 50/-for local candidates. |
(iii) The grant in aid released by the
Ministry
shall be deposited directly into an account opened by the institute for
this
purpose.
(iv) The grant-in-aid shall be released as
per norms
prescribed in the General Financial Rules and other appropriate
decisions at
the Ministry level.
v) Funds will be released to
the institutes in
first instalment of 70% and second instalment of 30%.
vi) Funds will be released in
subsequent years after
inspection of the organization by Central Government/State Government
or any
other agency designated by the Ministry.
vii) Sanction of subsequent year proposal
will
depend on level of success rate of the coaching institutes in
competitive
examinations and placement for jobs in private sectors.
viii) Efforts will be made to maintain a reasonable
geographical distribution of funds, based on the geographical
distribution of
minorities. The relevant benchmark will
be the address of the students coached.
7. TERMS
AND CONDITIONS TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY THE COACHING INSTITUTES
i) The institute shall
maintain full details
of name, address, and telephone number etc. of the candidates enrolled
for
coaching programme and furnish this information to the Ministry.
ii) The institute shall maintain full
records of
each candidate admitted like age, gender, educational qualifications,
bank
account number etc.
iii) The admissible amount payable
towards
stipend shall be paid to the candidates on monthly basis through their
bank
account number.
iv) Separate account will be
maintained by the
institute for the funds released by the Ministry that will be made
available to
the Ministry of Minority Affairs as and when requisitioned for
inspection.
v) The institutes shall utilize
the funds for
the specified purposes only. The grantee institute shall give an
undertaking
that in the event of acting in contravention of this condition, it will refund the amount received with 18% penal
interest and any other action, as deemed necessary by the government.
vi)
The
coaching institution will also be required to take an affidavit from
the
student that they have not taken benefit earlier under this scheme or
any other
similar scheme funded by the government.
vii)
The
institution shall submit a certificate accepting the terms and
conditions laid
down by the Ministry of Minority Affairs and furnish a bond with two
sureties
in the name of the competent authority responsible for actual
implementation of
the scheme and also responsible for furnishing of accounts of the grant
sanctioned.
viii)
The
institute shall be
solely responsible in ensuring that only students of meritorious
standing are
admitted for coaching.
ix)
The
institute shall provide the bank account and full address for crediting
the
sanctioned coaching fee directly into the institute account.
x)
After
completion of the coaching programme, the institute shall immediately
submit
the utilization certificate and audited accounts certified by a
Chartered
Accountant to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, along with the
following
documents:-
(a)
Income
and expenditure account/balance sheet for the year including receipt
&
payment account of the institute in respect of funds received during
the year.
(b)
A
certificate to the effect that the institution has not received any
other grant
for the same purpose from any other Ministry/Department of the
Government of
India, State/UT Government and any other Government/Non-Government
organization.
xi) The selected institute should be
willing to
mobilize its own resources for smooth conduct of the approved
programme. They
shall be duty bound to ensure that neither the coaching/training
programme nor
the payment of stipend to the enrolled candidates suffer due to delay,
if any,
in release of funds.
Monitoring
of the progress made by the grantee
institutes will be carried out as follows:
i) The institute shall
submit periodic progress
report of the coaching classes as prescribed in the sanction order to
the
Ministry of Minority Affairs and the State Government/UT administration.
ii)
The
institute shall submit information of employment secured by the
candidates
coached by them in Government and placements secured through their
efforts in
private sector to the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the State
Government/UT
administration.
iii) The grantee institute will be open to
inspection
by the officers of Central Government/State Government/UT and agencies
designated by the Ministry.