Samagra Shiksha of Tripura signed an MoU with NEDFi on Wednesday under the Advancing North East project, an official release said. The MoU would now help monitoring the mentoring the career of the students of 100 Vidyajyoti Schools
Advancing North East is an initiative of North Eastern Council, Ministry of DoNER and NEDFi for mentoring of the youths of North East in terms of Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship.
According to the press release, the MoU was signed by Ms Chandni Chandran, IAS, State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha Tripura and S K Baruah, Executive Director of NEDFi at a ceremony organized at Shiksha Bhawan in Agartala.
Under the collaboration, a total 200 teachers from 100 Vidyajyoti schools will be trained under the Advancing North East project as Career Mentors who will guide the students through a systematic approach.
The initiative will ensure availability of in-house support in the schools in terms of career mentoring and Advancing North East will act as a resource centre for them.
In the next one year, the students of Tripura will be connected to the career ecosystem through career talks with various experts, entrance exam talks with toppers, entrepreneurship mindset development sessions and exposure to premier national level institutions such as IIT, NM, NID, NIFT, NIT etc.
Bimbisar Bhattacharjee, Additional State Project Director of Samagra Shiksha, Prithviraj Neog, Team Leader of Advancing North East project, Dinesh Kumar Lahoti, Head Career Coach of Advancing North East project, Ranendra Narayan Roy Choudhury, Branch Manager of NEDFi Agartala Branch and other senior officials of Directorate of Secondary Education, Government of Tripura were present on the occasion.
