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Mission Aknakhya has been launched in Kalahandi, Odisha, where selected civil service candidates will get free coaching every year in collaboration with Vision IAS.
Mission Aknakhya launched in Kalahandi, Odisha, in which free UPSC coaching with Vision IAS was offered.
Officials confirmed on Saturday that the officials confirmed on Saturday that a selected group of civil services aspires in Kalahandi district would get free coaching every year in Odisha district. The event is a collaborative attempt between Kalahandi District Administration and Vision IAS, New Delhi, formally formally formally through a memorandum (MoU) signed on the occasion of Independence Day.
As part of the initiative, the district administration will provide infrastructure facility, while Vision IAS will provide free coaching to 60 students selected annually through a written test and interview. Coaching will be introduced in both class and online mode. Officials said that registrations for the program will start on August 22, with the selection test scheduled for September 21. Classes for selected students are ready to start from the first week of October at the landlords.
This is the first of its kind initiative in Odisha. Vision IAS has first organized similar programs in aspirational districts of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, which provide free coaching to qualified students in internal areas. Kalahndi has been identified as an aspirational district for focused development under the Aspirational Districts Program (ADP) by Neeti Ayog.
Meanwhile, while addressing the fourth convocation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in the Ranpur region of Kota, former vice -president Jagdeep Dhankhar criticized the coaching institutes, described them as “illegal centers” and “Black holes for talent”.
“I urge civil society (and) public representatives to appreciate the urgency of the disease.
“Let Kota be an education center and should not be a center of poaching or coaching centers,” he said. “The seats are limited, and the coaching centers are across the country. They rob our students, which makes their thinking completely condensed.”
He further reminded the students of the value of learning beyond Marx, saying, “Remember, your marksheet () grade (s) will never define you. When you jump into the competitive world, your knowledge and thinking will define you.”
The launch of Mission Aknakhya in Kalahandi aims to provide equal access to quality civil services for coaching, ensuring that talented students in remote areas are the opportunity to compete with candidates from more developed fields.
(With input from PTI)
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