Maharashtra Government to provide training to minority students

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Government is planning to provide training to students from minority community appearing for examinations of chartered accountancy, deputy collector, sub-inspector and CET for medical and engineering courses.

Minority affairs Minister Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan told reporters that his department would spend about Rs 3.5 crore to encourage the students, wishing to appear for these examinations and a proposal to this effect would be put up before the cabinet soon for approval.

As many as 200 youth from the minority community every year have received training for the posts of police constable and 1,400 of them have already been recruited as police constables, he said.

He also informed that Shakeel Ansari from Shahada (Nandurbar)and Pervez Naikwadi from Satara have cleared the UPSC examinations securing 507th and 786th rank respectively.

24-year-old Pervez secured training for UPSC entrance exams from state-run Yashada in Pune while 25-year-old Shakeel was trained from the central Haj committee in Mumbai.

The minister said the state government decided to start coaching centres for minority students to increase their representation in UPSC and MPSC in 2010.

Accordingly, the batch of 40 meritorious students from backward castes being trained for civil services was increased to 50 in each of the five civil services training centres with additional ten seats given for minority students.