Tripura SSA, NEDFi sign MoU for career mentoring of students

AGARTALA: Under its Mission 100, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Tripura and NEDFi signed an MoU on Wednesday at a ceremony here under the Advancing North East project for career mentoring of students in 100 Vidyajyoti Schools.

Advancing North East is an initiative of North Eastern Council, Ministry of DoNER and NEDFi for mentoring of the youths of the North-East in terms of education, employment and entrepreneurship.

According to a press release, the MoU was signed by Chandni Chandran, State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha Tripura and SK Baruah, Executive Director, NEDFi.

Under the collaboration, 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 resource centre for them. In next one year, the students of Tripura will be connected to the career ecosystem through career talks with various experts, entrance examination talks with toppers, entrepreneurship mindset development sessions and exposure to premier national level institutions such as IIT, IIM, NID, NIFT, NIT etc. The event was also attended by Bimbisar Bhattacharjee, Additional State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha, Tripura, Prithviraj Neog, Team Leader, Advancing North East project, Dinesh Kumar Lahoti, Head Career Coach, Advancing North East project, Ranendra Roy Choudhury, Branch Manager, NEDFi Agartala Branch and other senior officials of Directorate of Secondary Education, Government of Tripura.

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