UDAAN- Giving Wings to Girls 

Highlights of the scheme

1. To address the challenge of low enrolment of girls in technical education institutes.
2. To enable and empower the girl students to fulfill their aspiration of technical education.
3. To minimize the gap between school education & engineering entrance examination.
4. To enrich and enhance teaching and learning of Science and Mathematics at senior secondary level.
5. to provide a comprehensive platform to deserving girl students who aspire to pursue higher education in engineering and support them to prepare for the entrance examinations while studying in Classes XI and XII.

How it is implemented?

Eligibility:

1. The program is open to Indian citizens residing in India only.
2. All girl students studying in classes XI only from KVs/ NVs/ Government Schools of any recognised Board/ CBSE affiliated private schools in India are eligible to apply based on criteria given above.
3. Girl students enrolled in Class XI in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (PCM) stream.
4. Minimum 70% marks in Class X overall and 80% marks in Science and Mathematics;for Boards which follow CGPA, a minimum CGPA of 8 and a GPA of 9 in Science and Mathematics.
5. Reservation as per JEE (Advanced);OBC (NCL) – 27 % , SC – 15 % , ST – 7.5 % ,PWD – 3 % of seats in every category
6. The annual family income should be less than 6 lakhs per annum

• The selected students will have access to an online portal which will be organized on the basis of Class XI and XII with three subject streams – Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
• This portal will have content in the form of videos, tutorials and text. Concepts will be organized based on the learning taking place in the classroom as per the syllabus of Class XI and XII.
• Students will also have the same content available to them on a preloaded tablet to allow them to study in an offline format also.
• Before embarking on the program, these students will undergo a technology orientation session at the city centres to make them technology friendly and get comfortable with using the tablet and also the online content.

Funding Pattern

• Students will be eligible for financial assistance in form of admission and tuition fee subject to fulfillment of the following conditions –
• Student should have minimum 75% attendance in Udaan weekly assessments.
• Student gets admission in IIT /NIT / centrally funded engineering Institutes.
• Student is not taking scholarship and/or financial assistance from any other source.
• Student ensures satisfactory performance/ promotion in each term.

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