IIT Gandhinagar to train 100 EWS in leadership, critical thinking, and communication skills

The IIT will start residential IITGN-Dakshana Leadership Programme for govt school students with parents/guardians’ annual income below Rs 2 lakh

The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has joined hands with Dakshana, a not-for-profit organisation, and Ruyintan Mehta to start a month-long “IITGN-Dakshana Leadership Programme” from September 1-30, 2022, to train 100 academically outstanding but economically underprivileged students, predominantly from rural India, in essential skills of leadership, critical thinking, and communication.

Dakshana presently helps bright and impoverished students, predominantly from rural India, to prepare for IIT and medical entrance exams through intensive coaching for 1-2 years. However, there was also a need to build their soft skills, such as leadership, critical thinking, and communication, to add more value to their talent. The IITGN Dakshana Leadership Programme aims to equip students with these skills and knowledge in an IIT environment to help them reach their full potential.

The first IITGN Dakshana Leadership Programme will be hosting 100 Dakshana scholars selected from their Pune, Bangalore, and Hyderabad branches. They have been performing exceptionally well in their IIT-JEE preparation at Dakshana. These students come here from the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and other government schools across India after getting selected for intensive coaching based on their academic record and results in classes 10 & 12 and Dakshana’s proprietary testing. The annual income of these students’ parents/guardians is generally less than Rs 2 lakh.

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