WHAT IS CBSE UDAAN SCHEME
Let her wings spread wide ,
Let her fly high up in the sky,
Let her see the picturesque golden hour,
Let her be the harbenger of prosperity of our mother earth.
The age old stereotype , “ girls don’t study science “ , need to get a break now. Subjects are gender neutral and its high time we get this fact straight.
For those who believe that a particular subject or stream is not for females then hang on, let me clear the fog from your lenses , the history is evident , that females are at power with males at every step of life.
Ada Lovelace , who was a mathematician was regarded as fist ever computer programmer , long before modern computers were invented.
Marie Curie , Physicist and chemist , amongst the major achievements of her includes discovering radioactivity and inventing mobile X-ray unit.
Janaki Ammal , Botanist , she was known as india’s first female plant scientist , she developed several hybrid species which are still grown today.
These are only a few names of the thousands of the female achievers in the field of science. Women are capable of reading and excelling in science is after soo many years is being recognized by the government.
Women and science has always been portrayed as something which do not gel together. In this patriarchial society , the freedom of studying a particular subject by females is restricted as men of the society gets to decide what females ought to study.
In order to break this stringent chain of patriarchy , india’s first ever women’s college was being inaugurated on 2nd july , 1916. Named as SHREEMATI NATHIBAI DAMODAR THACKERSEY WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY. The college was started by the enrolment of 5 students with the objective of educating women. The present statistics says that around fifteen thousand women graduated from the university this year which has a heterogeneous mix of women both from Mumbai and pune.
Thus , females are gradually climbing up the steps of education, little steps each year. So to encourage and to climb one more step in the field of science education ,
And also to encourage more female enrollment at IITs , government and CBSE( Central Board Of Secondary Education ) has started the scheme , UDAAN.
UDAAN under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) aims to address at the low enrolment of girl students in prestigious engineering institutions and bridge up the teaching gap which is there between school teaching and entrance examinations.
The objective of this scheme is to empower the girl child to study science , give wings to their aspirations of joining prestigious institutions like IITs and NITs so that girls can also be the base of a strong foundation of India in the near future.
The effort here made by the government and CBSE is that to teach and learn science and mathematics more by females. The scheme aims of addressing the 3 dimentions of education - curriculum design , transaction and assessement
ELEGIBILITY
- The programme is elegible for all the residents of india
- All the female students studying in classes XI of KVs / NVs/government school board /CBSE affiliated private schools in india are also elegible
- The selection is absolutely merit based and will be considered against the city chosen by the student for weekly virtual contact classes.
- The girl student should be enrolled in class XII in the PCM( Physics , Chemistry , Mathematics ) stream.
- Minimum 70% marks in class X overall and 80% marks in science and mathematics. For the boards which follow CGPA , minimum of 8 and GPA of 9 in science and mathematics is required.
- Reservation as per JEE Advanced :- OBC (NCL) – 27%, SC-15%, ST – 7.5% , PWD – 3% of seats in every category.
- The annual income of the family should be less than 6 lakhs per annum.
BENEFITS
The benefits of this scheme is that the enrolled students will be provided free offline or online courses through various virtual weekend contact classes and study material while they are in class XI and XII , this would help them prepare themselves for the entrance examination of the various prestigious engineering college.
Also, the interested applicants would need to fill the UDAAN application form by visiting the official website which is
Also , UDAAN inorder to give access to quality education and good preparation , it organises virtual contact classes to its students at around 60 designated city centres.
They also design assessments which are aimed to give useful feedback to the students on how far their learning has been.
UDAAN scheme also has been designed for the students who are a bit weaker , they provide remedial classes to those students who need it. And also for those who wish to improve their learning.
The scheme also has been designed keeping in mind the meritorious students. They get peer learning and monitoring oppurtunities which helps them to grow.
A “ STUDENT HELPLINE “ service has also been started by the UDAAN scheme to clarify the doubts of the students , to monitor their learning and to provide them with technical support.
The provides their candidates constant monitoring and tracking of their progress along with some feedback.
SALIENT FEATURES
It has been seen that uptill now, under this programme , 14,575 girls has so far applied and among them 946 have been selected . it has been seen that all these students were majorly of impoverished backgrounds, it has been observed that they have shown impeccable performance after being enrolled in this scheme.
The government have provided the students enrolled in this scheme with tablets which are specially designed and have all the content in the form of text, videos and ebooks which would help these students in the future to crack the entrance examinations with ease.
The scheme also has aimed to provide financial support to their students. This has been designed in such a way that the student has to earn reward points while doing the assessment provided in the scheme, these points add up to give financial support to their students.
The scheme provides absolutely free of cost and a comprehensive study material in an online and offline format.
The keeps in mind the mental health of its candidates, therefore it provides periodic counselling sessions to motivate parents and students.
This scheme focuses on providing quality education of maths and science at senior secondary level and also to support thousand selected disadvantaged girls per year.
KEY DATES OF CBSE UDAAN
UDAAN scheme which aims at covering the syllabus of JEE entrance examinations along with the syllabus of senior secondary level, they generally open their application during the month of JULY or AUGUST.
The last date to apply for CBSE UDAAN for 2017-2019 fell on the last week of august.
CONCLUSION
The CBSE UDAAN scheme is a step taken by the government of India to bridge the gap of the dipping ratio of female students enrolment in prestigious science and mathematics institutes. This scheme aims to give a comprehensive study material to enhance the quality of education for science and mathematics at senior secondary level as well as prepare for the entrance examinations. Under this scheme the students are also given financial support inorder to encourage more enrolment of the students.