• September 9, 2023
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Education

Tapas

Tapas, initiated in 2012, is a free residential 2-years education program that aims to enable meritorious boys from socially and economically backward classes to avail education from IIT JEE.  The students are selected through a multi-level selection process. Students hailing from families whose annual income does not exceed 2 lakhs, and currently studying in class 10 are eligible applicants for this project every year. 

The level-1 and level-2 entrance exams take place on 25th of December and 26th January every year at 54 different centres across Karnataka State. Level-3 is verification of income through house visits and level-4 is the final residential selection camp at Bengaluru. Around 40 students are selected as eligible recipients of the benefits of the project. The selected students are provided free accommodation, food, tuition, study materials & training for a span of two years to complete XII std & qualify in IIT-JEE. 

Academic support is provided by the prestigious BASE Institute. The students undergo a complete transformation in the 2 years that enables them to successfully tackle the very tough IIT-JEE entrance exams and compete against lakhs of well prepared and privileged students from all over India and emerge successful & join IITs/ NITs.

Till now
438
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32
IIT
81
NIT
239
Top Engg. Colleges
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Project

Tapas - Gateway to IIT for Underprivileged Boys

By getting inspired from Anand Kumar and Super 30 of Bihar, Rashtrotthana started the Flagship Project, Tapas in 2012.

With the Academic Support of BASE Institute, Bengaluru, Tapas offers PU Education, IIT-JEE Coaching with food & accommodation freely for the Underprivileged Meritorious Boys. Till now, from 10 Batches 438 Students came out. IIT Bombay done Impact Assessment of Tapas and gave appreciations to the project.
Achievements of tapas
  • Till now 36,978 students wrote entrance exams and out of that 483 students got selected.
  • Seat Achievement: 36 IITs, 93 NITs & 263 Top Engg. Colleges
Philanthropy Support
  • Allstate India Pvt Ltd
  • T-Systems
  • Global Edge Software
Objectives of the Project
  • Reach the unreached
  • Enable education
  • Transform lives
Highlights of Tapas
  • Tapas started in 2012
  • Offers free residential 2-years, 11th & 12th education and coaching for IIT-JEE competitive exams
  • Aims to enable selected meritorious underprivileged boys to join India’s premier Engineering Institutes.
  • The students undergo a complete transformation in 2 years that enables them to successfully tackle the very tough IIT-JEE entrance exams while competing against lakhs of very well prepared and privileged students from all over India and emerge successful to join IITs/ NITs.
Selection Criteria & Process
  • Students hailing from families whose annual income does not exceed 2 lakhs, and currently studying in class 10 are eligible applicants for this project every year. 
  • The level-1 and level-2 entrance exams take place on 25th of December and 26th January every year at 54 different centers across Karnataka
  • Level-3 is verification of income through house visits
  • Level-4 is the final residential selection camp at Bengaluru
  • After all the 4 levels, every year 40 students are selected as eligible recipients of the benefits of the project.
  • The selected students are provided free accommodation, food, tuition, study materials & training for a span of 2 years to complete XII std & qualify in IIT-JEE.
  • Academic support is provided by the prestigious BASE Institute.

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