National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET)

Since students can now appear for this examination twice, the better of the two scores will be used for the purpose of ranking as per the regulations laid by the authorities.

Today, we look at the stories of five teachers who are empowering students from impoverished backgrounds with free coaching, helping them pursue their engineering and medical dreams.

Fourteen of his students from financially downtrodden backgrounds emerged triumphant in NEET 2019, after cracking the sought-after entrance exam.

Since they take in 25 students each in classes 11 and 12, the name 50 Villagers came about. A practising doctor, Dr Saran did not see himself take up teaching. "However," he says, “it was the circumstances and the education system that made me become a teacher and mentor.”

These organisations aim to not let lack of money be a hindrance to the students’ education.

Members of the Vadi Huda Trust made a quick decision to help when they saw a large crowd of tired parents languishing in the heat.