Northeast IAS Announces Rs 1 Crore of Scholarship For Civil Service Aspirants

GUWAHATI: North East Institute of Advanced Studies (Northeast IAS), one of the premier institutes for civil services examination, has announced merit-Scholarship worth of Rs 1 Crore for deserving candidates of Assam and northeastern region for the year of 2019-2020. Under the scheme, financial assistance for 100 aspirants who will be selected based on their performances in a test to be conducted in May by the Institute will receive coaching at the Guwahati and Delhi campus of the institute.

The announcement was made in a press conference, held on Wednesday at Guwahati. Under Mission 100 initiatives, the institute has produced total 07 numbers of successful candidates in less than three years. In UPSC CSE 2017, three numbers and in UPSC CSE 2018, four numbers which includes Chahat Bajpai Rank 59, Vishal Sah Rank 63, Shivendu Bhusan Rank 120 and Sudhanshu Nayak Rank 500. ‘’This scheme has been conceptualized to provide the much-needed support to those deserving and meritorious students. This will go a long way for the talented youth of the northeastern region to compete at the national level.

“We did feel the need to come up with such a scholarship program which will alow more talented youth to have the opportunity to get training like this.” said Sankar Ray, Director of Northeast-IAS while addressing a press conference. He further underlined the importance of quality guidance and mentoring as the only tool to transform the youth of Assam. He stated that the institute will provide intensive training and mentoring includes more than 900 hours of classroom coaching by nationally acclaimed faculty from Delhi and IAS toppers. Apart from classroom coaching, the hand-holding support to students, library facilities, researched study material and regular current affairs magazine, practice sessions, personality development program and guidance based on changing patter of the examination will also be provided to aspirants.

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